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