Intro: [F] Oooo [C7]ooo [F]ooo [F] Oooo [C7]ooo [F]ooo

If [F] General McAlister [Bb] gave up the wars

And [C7]all of the people went [Bb] back to their [F] chores

Then [Eb] all the King’s horses and [Bb] all the King’s men

Could go [F] home [C7] [F] [C7]

If [F] all of the people were [Bb] on the same side

There’d be [C7] no need to run there’d be [Bb] no need to [F] hide

And [Eb] all of us here in our [Bb] grey tattered coats

Could go [F] home [C7] [F] [F7]

Chorus:

If you’d [Bb] just listen sir once a[F]gain

To the [Bb] reasons of one of your [F] men

You could [Bb] make all these things come to [F] pass

And I could [Eb] lay on [Bb] Arkansas [F] grass

[Bb] Oh [C7] oh [F] go it [Dm] alone

To the [Bb] sound of the [C7] military [F] brass [F7]

[Bb] Oh [C7] oh [F] lovers [Dm] alone [Eb] laying on [Bb] Arkansas [F] grass

[Eb] Once a[F]gain

[F] Oooo [C7]ooo [F]ooo [F] Oooo [C7]ooo [F]ooo

So [F] gaily we marched through the [Bb] grey and the red

To [C7] lick ‘em first time like the [Bb] good general [F] said

We’d [Eb] nary a thought that [Bb] so very few

Would go [F] home [C7] [F] [C7]

If it [F] weren’t so wrong for a [Bb] soldier like me

To [C7] throw down his gun and [Bb] run to be [F] free

Then [Eb] all of us here with the [Bb] fear in our eyes

Would go [F] home [C7] [F] [F7]

Repeat chorus

[Eb] Once a[F]gain

[Eb] Laying on [Bb] Arkansas [F] grass (repeat x 7)

[F] Oh [C7] oh [F] lovers [Dm] alone [Eb] laying on [Bb] Arkansas [F] grass