CIVIL WAR WORDS & MUSIC:   Earl P. Reinhalter INTRO: E - F (4 times) E F E F I. I was a Vista volunteer to the Stone Age. E F E F the Civil War was raging all around me. E F E F and I proceeded to perpetrate an outrage E F Bb on the banjo strummin' lovin' white bourgeoisie. INSTRUMENTAL: Bsus4 - Cmaj7 - Bsus4 - A(add9) - G - F# - F E F E F II. I had to reinvent electric 'cause they had none. E F E F I wired a box guitar and made it louder. E F E F and that historic power chord number one E F Bb woke Jeff Davis at the midnight hour. INSTRUMENTAL: Bsus4 - Cmaj7 - Bsus4 - A(add9) - A9 D G CHORUS A: they put me in a jail, D G said it was a crime. D G it's hard to blaze a trail D G when you're ahead of your time. INSTRUMENTAL: D - G - D - G - D - G D - B7 - E - F E - F - E - F - E - F - E - F E F E F III. my girlfriend bailed me out. we did not linger E F E F 'cause we knew the law would love to make us suffer. E F E F she chopped her hair off short, I grew mine longer. E F Bb everybody thought we were each other. INSTRUMENTAL: Bsus4 - Cmaj7 - Bsus4 - A(add9) - A9 D - G - D - G - D - G D - B7 - E - F - E - F - E - F E - F - E - F - E - F - E - F E F E F IV. we crashed the Christmas ball one winter evening. E F E F we danced all the slow songs double speed. E F E F we were bobbing up and down with heavy breathing. E F Bb Bsus4 they thought we were white slaves that had been freed. INSTRUMENTAL: Bsus4 - Cmaj7 - Bsus4 - A(add9) - A9 D G CHORUS B: they put us in a jail, D G said it was a crime. D G it's hard to blaze a trail D G when you're ahead of your time. INSTRUMENTAL: D - G - E - A - A7 D G CHORUS C: we were still in jail D G when they sang Aulde Lang Syne. D G it's hard to raise bail D G when you're ahead of your time. ENDING: D - G - D - G - D © Copyright 1980 Earl P. Reinhalter.   All Rights Reserved.