Wasted Life

Song

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Wasted Life (Stiff Little Fingers)

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Intro

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

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Verse 1

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A

I could be a soldier

G

Go out there and fight to save this land

A

Be a people's soldier

G

Paramilitary gun in hand

A

I won't be a soldier

G

I won't take no orders from no-one

A

Stuff their fuckin' armies

G

Killing isn't my idea of fun

Chorus

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E A

And they wanna waste my life

E A

They wanna waste my time

E A

They wanna waste my life

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And they've stolen it away

Verse 2

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A

I could be a hero

G

Live and die for their important cause

A

A united nation

G

Or an independent state with laws

A

And rules and regulations

G

That merely cause disturbances and wars

A

And that's what I have got now

G

All thanks to the freedom seeking hoardes

{Repeat chorus}

Bridge

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I'm not gonna be taken in

F# E

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

F# E

I've heard that story many times before

F# G#

And every time I've thrown it out the door

Solo

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Verse 3

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A

Still they come up to me

G

With a different name and same old face

A

I can see the connection

G

With another time and another place

A

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

G

But they think that they're the master race

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They're nothing but blind fascists

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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"