Til the Last Shot's Fired by TRACE ADKINS CAPO 2 INTRO: Em D C Em D C C e---------------0-------------------0----------------0---------------------0 b-------------0---------------1--------------------0-----------------1-----1 g-----------0-------------------0----------------0---------------------0---0 d----2----2---------4p2p0---2-----2--------2---2---------4p2p0-----2-----2-2 a-0h2----------------------3------------0h2----------------------3---------3 e------0-------------------------------------0-----------------------------0 after this just find a fingerstyle that goes with the beat and keep playing it until the chorus. then you can play the full chord if you want. Em D C I was there in the winter of '64 Am D Em When we camped in the ice at Nashville's doors G C D Three hundred miles our trail had led Am C Em We barely had time to bury our dead Em C D When the Yankees charged and the colors fell Am C Em Overton hill was a living hell Em C D When we called retreat it was almost dark Am C Em I died with a grapeshot in my heart Em(C) D C(Em) the parenthesis is where im not sure which chord Say a prayer for peace to play. you can decide for yourself.i put it C G D the way i play it. For every fallen son Em(C) D C(Em) Set my spirit free C G D Let me lay down my gun Am C Em Sweet mother Mary I'm so tired C D Em But I can't come home 'til the last shot's fired (same chords from here on out) In June of 1944 I waited in the blood of Omaha's shores Twenty-one and scared to death My heart poundin' in my chest I almost made the first seawall When my friends turned and saw me fall I still smell the smoke, I can taste the mud As I lay there dying from a loss of blood Say a prayer for peace For every fallen son Set my spirit free Let me lay down my gun Sweet mother Mary I'm so tired But I can't come home 'til the last shot's fired bridge: C I'm in the fields of Vietnam, D The mountains of Afghanistan C And I'm still hopin', waitin', prayin' D I did not die in vain Say a prayer for peace For every fallen son Set our spirits free Let us lay down our guns Sweet mother Mary we're so tired But we can't come home 'til the last shot's fired 'Til the last shot's fired [Choir:] Say a prayer for peace (for peace) For our daughters and our sons Set our spirits free (set us free) Let us lay down our guns [Trace:] Sweet mother Mary, we're so tired But we can't come home (No we can't come home) [Choir:] 'Til the last shot's fired