Long Way Home Chords

KeyD CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays431

Long Way Home by Cross Canadian Ragweed is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, A, G, Bm, C and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

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D
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16
Speed
  			Intro: D A G  (3X) and then : Bm A D 

  
D                A   G          D A G 
To scared to go to proud to run    
D                   A   G              D A G 
Here's your orders boy here's your gun 
D                      A   G                           
We're sending you off to vietnam  
       Bm                A    D 
try to stay cool try to stay calm 

(Play Intro Again) 
D                  A         G             D A G 
Never seen nothing but that mid texas dirt 
D           A   G              D A G  
Never been on a flyin' machine 
D                A   G                                    
Your job now is to take this gun  
          Bm         A       D  
and kill everything that you see 
       C   G     D 
Its a long way home 
        F          C              D                         
Its a long, long, long, long way home 
(Play intro) 

D                   A   G                 D A G 
Orange in the air and fire on the ground 
          D             A   G              D A G 
Man them back up boys aint nowhere around 
            D                A   G 
And theres smoke in the sky and screamin to the sea  
    Bm            A  D 
oh God have mercy on me 

(Chorus) 
(Play intro for solo) 

D           A   G             D A G 
Got that medal on your chest 
D           A   G   D A G 
Now ya got it made 
            D          A     G 
But you're going back to the land of protest  
       Bm        A   D 
and an empty heros parade 

(no chords here, just bass and drums) 
You're wakin up in the dead of night 

(no chords here, just bass and drums) 
Screamin out your lungs 

(no chords here, just bass and drums)                      
You got jungle fires and trip bomb wires  
                         D 
and blazin red turret guns 

(Chorus) 
(play intro for outro) 


    	

Chord diagrams

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Reference tones

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante