I'm uploading this because I couldn't seem to find it online and had to self-teach it by ear. If I've gotten the chords wrong, I apologize, let me know and I'll try to fix it. One way or another, I'm putting this here so someone else can get the same enjoyment out of this song that I do. Intro: E E When my girl got pregnant well I dropped right out of school A But there's no work in South Hill so what else could I do? E The recruiter's came-a-knocking when this whole damn thing began B5 E They promised me a college education food and medicine E They said I wouldn't spend a dime if I got deployed overseas A Plus Baghdad is safer now than old Washington, DC E So I signed that dotted line right quick and in a blink of an eye B5 E I found myself at Fort Benning where I practiced forming lines E Well Fallujah became my home, my comfort and my dread A The marines that came through first man they tore this place to shreds E With the sound of crushing Amtracs and the whine of their Humvee's B5 E Calling in them A-10 air strikes man I wish I could have seen it E But when we got to town I realized we were only legs A We do dismounted patrols we do searches and do raids E We hear the crack of small arms fire and the blast from IED's B5 E We hurry up and wait, suck in dust and stay low key B5 A E And I cannot stop this pounding in my head B5 A E I thought we were doing right but that's not what folks back home have said A B5 E A Sometimes I can't tell which way is up or which is down B5 A But I'm oddly at ease with this chaos all around E Then one day out on patrol doing time out in the heat A We were ordered to a neighborhood to talk to folks out on the street E To gather information on where some weapons may be stored B5 E Or to see if the Mujahideen had hauled them off out of Fallujah and to the north E Well my platoon got lost and made more then one wrong turn A We should have called in our position fast but we blamed each other first E Then we started taking sniper fire - god damn them all B5 E We couldn't find the shooter no where he had us pinned down one and all E Well friendies they caught up and we took back that god damned street A But something wasn't right and I was feeling really weak E My adrenaline was high and I was scared and I could hardly breathe B5 E I heard doc argue with the Sarg that morphine might kill me E That's the last thing I remember that and heat and clear blue sky A And thinking about my girl back home and my daughters little eyes E I took that bullet in Fallujah and I'm laid up in Germany B5 E And I'm headed back stateside to the care of Walter Reed B5 A E And I cannot feel a thing below my waist B5 A E Doc tried to help me man but it was too late A B5 E A Now I don't know who is right or who is wrong B5 E But I'm fucked up and I want to go back home B5 A E And I cannot stop this pounding in my head B5 A E I thought we were doing right but that's not what folks back home have said A B5 E A Sometimes I can't tell which way is up or which is down B5 E But one day I'll stand firmly on the ground B5 E Yes one day I'll stand firmly on the ground