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