03_times/withgod.htm

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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">With God on Our Side</h1>
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  15
  16 <p>Words and Music Bob Dylan<br />
  17 Released on <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">The Times They Are A-Changin'</a> (1963) and in live versions on <a class="recordlink" href="../37_unplugged/index.htm">Unplugged</a> (1995) and <a class="recordlink" href="../43_bs6/index.htm">Live 1964</a> (2004)<br />
  18 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
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  21
  22 <h2 class="songversion">Album version</h2>
  23
  24 <p>The * denotes the G - G6 - G7 figure that Dylan is so fond of:</p>
  25 <pre class="chords">
  26 G   320003
  27 G6  322003  or 3x2003
  28 G7  323003  or 3x3003
  29 </pre>
  30
  31 <p>It can be replaced by just a G chord.</p>
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  33 <pre class="verse">
  34 C (First measure harp only)  |F   |Em   |G * |C
  35
  36       C             F Em
  37 Oh my name it ain't nothin'
  38    G   *        C
  39 My age it means less
  40     F   Em  G C
  41 The country I come from
  42    F          C
  43 Is called the Midwest
  44     F      Em  G       C
  45 I's taught and brought up there
  46     F        C
  47 The laws to abide
  48                          F    Em
  49 And that the land that I live in
  50     G   *      C
  51 Has God on its side.
  52
  53 Oh the history books tell it
  54 They tell it so well
  55 The cavalries charged
  56 The Indians fell
  57 The cavalries charged
  58 The Indians died
  59 Oh the country was young
  60 With God on its side.
  61
  62 The Spanish-American
  63 War had its day
  64 And the Civil War too
  65 Was soon laid away
  66 And the names of the heroes
  67 I's made to memorize
  68 With guns in their hands
  69 And God on their side.
  70
  71 The First World War, boys
  72 It came and it went
  73 The reason for fighting
  74 I never did get *)
  75 But I learned to accept it
  76 Accept it with pride
  77 For you don't count the dead
  78 When God's on your side.
  79
  80 The Second World War
  81 Came to an end
  82 We forgave the Germans
  83 And then we were friends
  84 Though they murdered six million
  85 In the ovens they fried
  86 The Germans now too
  87 Have God on their side.
  88
  89 I've learned to hate the Russians
  90 All through my whole life
  91 If another war comes
  92 It's them we must fight
  93 To hate them and fear them
  94 To run and to hide
  95 And accept it all bravely
  96 With God on my side.
  97
  98 But now we got weapons
  99 Of chemical dust
 100 If fire them we're forced to
 101 Then fire them we must
 102 One push of the button
 103 And a shot the world wide
 104 And you never ask questions
 105 When God's on your side.
 106
 107 Through many dark hours
 108 I've been thinkin' about this
 109 That Jesus Christ
 110 Was betrayed by a kiss
 111 But I can't think for you
 112 You'll have to decide
 113 Whether Judas Iscariot
 114 Had God on his side.
 115
 116 So now as I'm leavin'
 117 I'm weary as Hell
 118 The confusion I'm feelin'
 119 Ain't no tongue can tell
 120 The words fill my head
 121 And then fall to the floor
 122 That if God's on our side
 123 He'll stop the next war.
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 127
 128 <p>*) The official lyrics have (as a rather silly attempt at producing a
 129 better rhyme than the original):</p>
 130 <pre class="verse">
 131 It closed out its fate
 132 The reason for fighting
 133 I never got straight
 134 </pre>
 135
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 137
 138 <h2 class="songversion"><em><a class="recordlink" href="../37_unplugged/index.htm">Unplugged</a></em> version</h2>
 139
 140 <p>Basically the same as above, only slightly simplified.</p>
 141 <pre class="verse">
 142 C                F Em
 143 Oh my name it is nothin'
 144    G            C
 145 My age it means less
 146     C *)
 147 The country I come from
 148    F          C
 149 Is called the Midwest
 150     C
 151 I's taught and brought up there
 152     F        C
 153 The laws to abide
 154                      F    Em
 155 And that land that I live in
 156     G          C
 157 Has God on its side.
 158 </pre>
 159
 160 <p>*) The Cs are usually embellished by Csus4s.
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