Unbroken - Bon Jovi, ukulele chords

Published: 2019-11-10 14:19
Selection chords: Katie Paterson

D#m x4

      D#m
I was born to be of service
            C#
Camp Lejeune just felt like home
            G#m
I had honor, I found purpose
              B
Sir, yes, sir, thatʼs what I know

           D#m
They sent us to a place
            C#
Iʼd never heard of weeks before
            G#m
When youʼre 19 it ainʼt hard to sleep
             B
In the desert on Godʼs floor

              G#m
Close your eyes, stop counting sheep
              B
You ainʼt in boot camp anymore

      D#m
We were taught to shoot our rifles
      C#
Men and women side by side
      G#m
Thought weʼd be met as liberators
      B
In a thousand-year-old fight

      D#m
I got this painful ringing in my ear
      C#
From an IED last night
      G#m
But no lead-lined Humvee war machine
      B
Could save my sergeantʼs life

      G#m
Three more soldiers, six civilians
      B
Need these words to come out right

Chorus:
 F#              C#
God of mercy, God of light
 G#m                B
Save your children from this life
 F#                 C#
Hear these words, this humble plea
 G#m                B
For I have seen the suffering
   F#              C#
And with this prayer Iʼm hoping
    G#m        B
That we can be unbroken

      D#m
tʼs eighteen months now Iʼve been stateside
      C#
With this medal on my chest
      G#m
But there are things I canʼt remember
      B
And there are things I wonʼt forget

      D#m
I lie awake at night
      C#
With dreams the devil shouldnʼt see
      G#m
I want to scream but I canʼt breathe
      B
And, Christ, Iʼm sweating through these sheets

      G#m
Whereʼs my brothers? Whereʼs my country?
      B
Whereʼs my how-things-used-to-be

Chorus:
 F#              C#
God of mercy, God of light
 G#m                B
Save your children from this life
 F#                 C#
Hear these words, this humble plea
 G#m                B
For I have seen the suffering
   F#              C#
And with this prayer Iʼm hoping
    G#m        B
That we can be unbroken

      D#m
My service dogʼs done more for me
      C#
Than the medication would
      G#m
There ainʼt no angel thatʼs coming to save me
      B
But even if they could

      D#m
Today twenty-two will die from suicide
      C#
Just like yesterday, theyʼre gone
      G#m
I live my life for each tomorrow
      B
So their memories will live on

      D#m
Once we were boys and we were strangers
      C#
Now weʼre brothers and weʼre men
      G#m
Someday youʼll ask me "Was it worth it
      B
To be of service in the end?"

      G#m
Well, the blessing and the curse is
      B
Yeah, Iʼd do it all again