Verse
C E
Honey, don't tell the boys I been talkin' like this
Dm C
'Cause I can't have 'em thinkin' I'm scared
C E
Truth is I ain't afraid a'nothin' no more
Dm C
I'm tired and I just don't care
C E
How many tours is too many tours
Dm C
My baby she'd like to know
E
'Cause always there at the back a'my mind
Dm C
Is that Jody's there when I go
[Chorus]
C Gm
Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City
C Gm
Never let 'em send me back
C Gm
Some shit went down, down in Sadr City
C A#
Some shit went down in Iraq
C
I ain't goin' back
[Verse 2]
C E
Well I was there in '04 when it first got hot
Dm C
And Muqtada's local fighters emerged
C E
Earned a Purple Heart via Seven-Six-Two
Dm C
And another later during the Surge
C E
Didn't know nothin' back then, didn't care
Dm C
It was get it on and kick us some ass
C E
Couldn't tell a Sunni from a Shia from the Kurds
Dm C
But they educated me pretty fast
[Chorus]
C Gm
Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City
C Gm
Never let 'em send me back
C Gm
Some shit went down, down in Sadr City
C A#
Some shit went down in Iraq
A#
I ain't goin' back
[Verse 3]
C E
Well it was pretty touch n'go from the very first light
Dm C
Fiercest action that I'd ever seen
C E
Ambush come and we hadda' dismount
Dm C
Get busy, fight it out in the streets
C E
Well all hell broke loose, takin' fire from the rooftops
Dm C
Haji launchin' RPGs
C E
Fightin' runnin' battles with militias in the alleys
Dm C
Draggin' on and on week after week
C E
Takin' hits at fifty metres from a shrine nearby
Dm C
But they wouldn't let us light up a mosque
C E
Then our tanks rolled in, real hard real heavy
Dm C
But they couldn't help the guys that we lost
[Chorus]
C Gm
Never let 'em send me back to Sadr City
C Gm
Never let 'em send me back
C Gm
Some shit went down, down in Sadr City
C A#
Some shit went down in Iraq
C
I ain't goin' back
[Verse 4]
C E
Well I don't know if it matters to the folks back home
Dm C
But they say they're all supportin' the troops
C E
There's no time anyway to be dwelling on that
Dm C
Out here thinkin's only for fools
C E
And as long as there's no lack of young man willin'
Dm C
To ride to the sound of the guns
C E
I'll be waking up dreaming of the Mahdi Army
Dm C
And of both sides losing their sons
[Final Chorus]
C Gm
They ain't a-gonna send me back to Sadr City
C Gm
They ain't a-gonna send me back
C Gm
My orders came through and babe it isn't pretty
C A#
It's Afghanistan instead of Iraq
A#
They're sending me back