Bury Me Far From My Uniform Chords
by Joe Pug
Bury Me Far From My Uniform by Joe Pug is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D with a capo on the 2st fret. It uses the chords D, G, Bm, D7 and A. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
D
D
I was falling dead in battle
D G D
Must have been Tuesday, I don't know the date
Bm G
I gave everything everyone asked for
G D
But I'll say where I'll be laid
D7 G
The many dead of my comrades
G D
All look the same in this place
D G D
Won't you bury me far from my uniform
D A D
So God might remember my face
Bridge:
D G D
Just bury me far from my uniform
G D
From the iron cross medal I would've worn
G D
From the statues that sisters and widows mourn
G D
From the newspaper clippings in micro-form
G D
From Geneva, the Hague, and Nuremberg
D G
From the sex of this world that I'll no longer taste
D G
Won't you bury me far from my uniform
D A D
So God might remember my face