Key of G -> Capo 4 = Key of B Chords are basically the same throughout. Intro/verses: D Cadd9 G 2x e|--x-x--------x-3-------x-3 B|--3-3--------x-3-------x-3 G|--0h2--------0-0-------x-0 D|--0-0--------2-2-------x-0 A|--x-x--------0h3-------2-2 E|--x-x--------x-x-------3-3 D Cadd9 G Oh Mother are you sleepin'? D Cadd9 G Did you pray for me tonight? D Cadd9 G Cause I'm alone here on this front line D Cadd9 G Hoping I might get back home alive. D Cadd9 G I see the bullets flyin', D Cadd9 G And I feel the bombs explode. D Cadd9 G I close my eyes and pull this trigger D Cadd9 G And kill these people I don't even know. Chorus playing this: e|-----------------------| B|--1--0-------1--0------| G|--------2----------2---| D|-----------------------| A|-----------------------| E|-----------------------| D Cadd9 G And Mother, please forgive me D Cadd9 G For these things that I have seen and done. D Cadd9 G I hope I can still get home to heaven. D Cadd9 G I wish I had a bible Instead of this damn gun. Interlude goes, very basically, something like this (relative to capo) e|-----------------------| B|-----------------------| G|--2s4s5---4s2s4--2p0h2-| D|-----------------------| A|-----------------------| E|-----------------------| Got 60 pounds upon my back. Machine gun in my hand. All day long clearin burned out shacks. All these things I know I'll never understand. For next chorus a 2nd guitar plays this: e|--3-2----3-2----3-2---| B|------3------3------3-| G|----------------------| D|----------------------| A|----------------------| E|----------------------| And Mother, please forgive me For these things that I have seen and done. I hope I can still get home to heaven. I wish I had a bible Instead of this damn gun. Oh, I wish I had a bible Instead of this damn gun. Oh, I wish that I could tell you I was safe away from harm, But everytime I close my eyes Mama, I wish you could hold me in your arms. And Mother, please forgive me For these things that I have seen and done. I hope I can still get home to heaven. I wish I had a bible Instead of this damn gun. And Mother, please forgive me For these things that I have seen and done. I hope I can still get home to heaven. I wish I had a bible Instead of this damn gun. Oh, I wish I had a bible Instead of this damn gun.