No Man Can Find The War

(Beckett/Buckley)

TIM BUCKLEY

From Goodbye And Hello, 1967

(like much of this album, capoed at the first fret)

Dm / / / F / / / G / / / Bb / / / Dm

(Dm)

Photographs of guns and flame

Scarlet skull and distant game

Bayonet and jungle grin

(Dm)

Nightmares dreamed by bleeding men

Lookouts tremble on the shore

But no man can find the war

Tape recorders echo scream

Orders fly like bullets stream

Drums and cannons laugh aloud

Whistles come from ashen shroud

Leaders damn the world and roar

But no man can find the war

Is the war across the sea?

Is the war behind the sky?

Have you each and all gone blind?

Is the war inside your mind?

Humans weep at human death

All the talkers lose their breath

Movies paint a choas tale

Singers see and poets wail

All the world knows the score

But no man can find the war

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submitted by Hirsch Freeman

comments and corrections welcome at drumbo@geocities.com

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