Wasted Lifev3

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Wasted Life (Stiff Little Fingers)

Intro

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This intro. riff can be played for as many bars as you like.

Verse 1

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I could be a soldier

Go out there and fight to save this land

Be a people's soldier

Paramilitary gun in hand

I won't be a soldier

I won't take no orders from no-one

Stuff their fuckin' armies

Killing isn't my idea of fun

Chorus

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And they wanna waste my life

They wanna waste my time

They wanna waste my life

And they've stolen it away

Verse 2

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I could be a hero

Live and die for their important cause

A united nation

Or an independent state with laws

And rules and regulations

That merely cause disturbances and wars

And that's what I have got now

All thanks to the freedom seeking hoardes

{Repeat chorus}

Bridge

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I'm not gonna be taken in

They said if I don't join I just can't win

I've heard that story many times before

And every time I've thrown it out the door

Solo

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Verse 3

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Still they come up to me

With a different name and same old face

I can see the connection

With another time and another place

No they ain't blond-haired or blue-eyed

But they think that they're the master race

They're nothing but blind fascists

Brought up to hate and given lives to waste

{repeat chorus twice}

Worked out by (i.e. not necessarily 100% correct but as near as I can get it)

Gordon Johnston <328gj@alph1.dev.esoc.esa.de>

"A Scotsman in Germany"