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[Verse 1]
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Our little army boy is coming home from B. F. P. O.
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    I've a bunch of purple flowers to decorate a Mammys hero,
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    Mourning in the aerodrome, the weather warmer, he is colder,
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    Four men in uniform to carry home my little soldier

[Chorus 1]
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(What should he do?  Could've been a rock star!)

              F#m                  Bm
But he didn't have the money for a gui - tar,
                                  (What should he do?...
   E                      D
...Could've been a poli - tician!)

             F#m                Bm
But he never had a proper edu - ca - tion,
                               (What should he do?...

   E                      D
...Could've been a fath - er!)

             F#m                 Bm       D
But he never even made it to his twenties, what a waste,
G    Bm       G              D               G     Bm
Army dreamers!    Oo, what a bloody waste of army dreamers

[Verse 2]
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Tears over a tin box, oh, Jesus Christ, he wasn't to know,
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   Like a chicken with a fox, he couldn't win his war with ego,
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   Give the kid the pick of pips,
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And give him all your stripes and ribbons,
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    Now he's lying in his hole,
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He might as well have buttons and bows

[Chorus 2]
 Bm                E                    D
(What should he do?  Chould've been a rock star!)

              F#m                  Bm
But he didn't have the money for a gui - tar,
                                  (What should he do?...
   E                      D
...Chould've been a poli - tician!)

             F#m                Bm
But he never had a proper edu - ca - tion,
                               (What should he do?...

   E                      D
...Could've been a fath - er!)

             F#m                 Bm       D
But he never even made it to his twenties, what a waste,

G    Bm         Bm     G              D             G    Bm
Army dreamers!                What a bloody waste of army dreamers

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 Bm                E                    D
(What should he do?  Could've been a rock star!)

              F#m                  Bm
But he didn't have the money for a gui - tar,

   E                      D
(He could've been a poli - tician!)

             F#m                Bm
But he never had a proper edu - ca - tion,
                               (What should he do?...

   E                      D
...Should've been a fath - er!)

             F#m                 Bm       D
But he never even made it to his twenties, what a waste,

G      Bm         G    Bm              G    Bm
Army dreamers!     Army dreeeeeeamers!


 G      Bm           G    Bm   G       Bm
  (Army   dreamers.                Army     dreamers.

G    Bm    G       Bm             G
               Army    dreamers.)

[Outro]

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