Hold The Line chords

[VERSE 1]
We were [F]farmboys in the spring of 'four[G]teen
A [F]few miles from mother's door the furthest I'd ever [G]been.
[F]One short month of training and we're [C]off to foreign [G]shores to [Dm]ho-[Am]ld the [G]line.

[Dm] [Am] [G]

[VERSE 2]
And now a [F]year's gone by and I've never let my [G]mind count
the [F]minutes of these murders, the brothers now be[G]hind.
"We'll [F]all go home by Christmas. The [C]weather will be [G]kind. Will you [Dm]ho-[Am]ld the [G]line?"

"Your mask pro[F]tects you from the poison yellow [G]smoke."
"They will [F]time their charge to take you when they think the line has [G]broken."
"[F]None of them expecting that we [C]got their trenches [G]mined."
"And we'll [Dm]ho-[Am]ld the [G]line."

[BRIDGE]
They [F]sent us out to murder on the [C]empty foreign [G]fields.
There is [Dm]crimson in the [Am]umber of a [G]kind that doesn't yield.
Our [F]youth gave in to anger, our [C]shoulder to the [G]toil.
A [Dm]million [Am]names and [G]faces in a mile of bloody soil.

[Dm] [F] [C] [G]

[VERSE 3]
Have [F]I been here a lifetime or just these thousand horrid [G]days?
Will the [F]guns ever go silent?
Will the winds of time [G]erase the [F]scars upon the [C]battlefield?
The [G]wound within our mind while we [Dm]ho-[Am]ld the [G]line?

And of all the [F]faces that have come and gone (while in this tomb I've [G]grown),
The [F]one I've come to like the least's the one that is my [G]own.
For [F]within this bloodied hero a [C]murderer you [G]find and you [Dm]ho-[Am]ld the [G]line.
[Dm]Ho-[Am]ld the [G]line.