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YEAR OF WONDERS
Words and music by Lachlan Irvine
Capo on 5
[D] Nineteen hundred and sixty-eight began in a foreign land; [D]
I [D] carried a radio [Dsus4] on my [D] back and a [Dsus4] rifle [D] in my [A] hand.
It [D] seemed like only [Dsus4] yester-[D]-day
The "summer of love" had [Dsus4] been; [D]
I was [D] groovin' to Sergeant [Dsus4] Pepper [D]
In the [Dsus4] twilight [D] of my [A] teens.
The [D] enemy came [Dsus4] out to [D] fight on the holy day of [Dsus4] Tet; [D]
But [D] that was just an [Dsus4] early [D] sign That I [Dsus4] ain't seen [D] nothin' [A] yet.
We [D] took some fire and [Dsus4] spilled some [D] blood
In a battle near [Dsus4] Trang [D] Bom
While the [D] big man in the [Dsus4] White House [D]
Told the [Dsus4] world he [D] couldn't go [A] on.
It was a [G] year of many wonders, the [D] history books tell it true;
It [A] took a wide-eyed country boy a [D] long way from Dunedoo.
[G][D][A][D]
A [D] King of peace climbed a [Dsus4] mountain [D] top;
His words and deeds in-[Dsus4]-spire; [D]
A [D] coward's bullet [Dsus4] cut him [D] down And [Dsus4] cities [D] caught on [A] fire;
[D] We had our own [Dsus4] mountain to [D] climb,
Long Hai was its [Dsus4] name; [D]
With [D] minefields, tunnels and [Dsus4] endless [D] ways
To [Dsus4] kill, to [D] wound, to [A] maim.
[D] A season in Hell for [Dsus4] seven [D] weeks Of blood and sand and [Dsus4] fire; [D]
The [D] whole wide world was [Dsus4] comin' a-[D]-part,
While the [Dsus4] body [D] count grew [A] higher.
There was [D] one more lesson [Dsus4] still to [D] learn,
Before the pain would [Dsus4] end; [D]
[D] I would find [Dsus4] how it [D] feels to [Dsus4] lose a [D] real good [A] friend.
It was a [G] year of many wonders, the [D] history books tell it true;
It [A] took a wide-eyed country boy a [D] long way from Dunedoo.
[G][D][A][D]
[D] Barricades in [Dsus4] Gay Pa-[D]-ree, the spirit of Soixant-[Dsus4]-Huit; [D]
There was [D] revolution [Dsus4] in the [D] air And [Dsus4] carnage [D] in the [A] street.
In a [D] patch of scrub called [Dsus4] Coral, [D]
We went looking for a [Dsus4] fight; [D]
But [D] nothing could pre-[Dsus4]-pare us [D] for
What [Dsus4] hit us [D] that first [A] night.
[D] For days and weeks the [Dsus4] battle [D] raged,
And raged and raged some [Dsus4] more; [D]
As we [D] dug in at Bal-[Dsus4]-moral And [D] let [Dsus4] slip the [D] dogs of [A] war.
I [D] couldn't believe I [Dsus4] heard it [D] right,
When the man on the radio [Dsus4] said [D]
The [D] news from Cali-[Dsus4]-fornia [D] was
[Dsus4] Another [D] Kennedy [A] dead.
It was a [G] year of many wonders, the [D] history books tell it true;
It [A] took a wide-eyed country boy a [D] long way from Dunedoo.
[G][D][A][D]
[D] Prague was a place for [Dsus4] poets, [D] you could hear the people [Dsus4] sing; [D]
Till [D] tank tracks rumbled [Dsus4] through the [D] streets,
To [Dsus4] crush the [D] hope of [A] Spring.
[D] We faced the worst and [Dsus4] did our [D] best;
Till every test was [Dsus4] passed; [D]
Our [D] weary band of [Dsus4] brothers [D] made it [Dsus4] back to [D] base at [A] last;
[D] Black Power at the O-[Dsus4]-lympic Games; [D] fists raised to the [Dsus4] sky; [D]
[D] So many troubles [Dsus4] round the [D] world,
And [Dsus4] young people [D] asking [A] why.
[D] The only thing that [Dsus4] mattered, [D] that I could do or [Dsus4] say, [D]
Was [D] try my best to [Dsus4] be a-[D]-live at the [Dsus4] end of [D] every [A] day.
It was a [G] year of many wonders, the [D] history books tell it true;
It [A] took a wide-eyed country boy a [D] long way from Dunedoo.
[G][D][A][D]
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