Hans Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Em][C][Am][Adim][Baug][Em][B][Em]

[Verse 1]
Hello, [Em]hello,
Hans
I was passing so [Am]I
stopped to say hel[B]lo
You don't know me,
and there's no reason now
why [Em]you should ever know
You died here, in some prison camp,
[Am]conditions weren't too [B]bad
Was it a wound, Hans,
or maybe the [Em]shell shock sent you back?
You were [G]twenty,
that's what it [D]says upon the stone
I'm trying to imagine
what it's like to [B]die all [Em]alone
At [Bm]twenty, before you've
had a [Em]chance to be awful
[Am]I was pa[Em]ssing,
so I [B]stopped to [Baug]say hello[Em]
Can you see the child hunts?
The little girl who [Am]laughs upon your [B]grave
Not yours, Hans,
not the ones you [Em]went to war to save
See her father, he proudly picks her [Am]up
And sits her [B]down on a tombstone
To take photographs that
[Em]he can show around
He was a [G]young boy
at the very [D]moment that you died
Maybe you had a little child
to walk [B]proudly by your [Em]side
Or a young [Bm]wife who tried so very [Em]hard
but still she [Am]cried
Can you [Em]see the little g[Baug]irl
[B]laugh on your [Em]grave?
So goodbye Hans,
I'll maybe come [Am]again
some other [B]time
Because somehow,
that grave that's yours
could [Em]easily be mine
You see there's wars
Hans, men are trained to
[Am]fight each other [B]still
It goes on, Hans.
It always has, it [Em]seems, it always will.
So I must [G]go now.
The young men milling round
[D]are making so much noise.
And as you remember,
when they're together
[C]boys [B]will always just be [Em]boys.
Unlike [Bm]you, Hans,
they've never been a
[Em]country's broken toys.
[Am]So goodbye, [Em]I'll maybe come agai[B]n,
some other time
[Em]