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