D - C
1. It's up to you not to heed
the call-up,
D
- C
you must not act the way you
were brought up.
D
- C
Who knows the reasons why you
have grown up ?
D
- C
Who knows the plans or why
they were drawn up ?
D
C
It's up to you not to heed the
call-up, I don't wanna die !
D
C
It's up to you not to hear the
call-up, I don't wanna kill !
D C - D C
For he who will die is he who will kill !
D
- C
2. Maybe I wanna see the
wheatfields,
D -
C
over Kiev and down to the sea.
D C
It's up to you not to hear the
call-up, I don't wanna die !
D C
It's up to you not to hear the
call-up, I don't wanna kill!
D
- C
2. All the young people down
the ages,
D - C
they gladly marched off to die.
D
- C
Proud city fathers used to
watch them,
D - C
tears in their eyes.
D C
It's up to you not to heed the
call-up, I don't wanna die !
D
C
It's up to you not to hear the
call-up, I don't wanna kill !
D C - D
C
For he who will die is he who will kill.
+ D - C - D - C
D
- C
3. There is a rose that I
want to live for,
D
- C
although, God knows, I may not
have met her.
D
- C
There is a dance and I should
be with her,
D - C
there is a town unlike any
other.
D
- C
4. It's up to you not to hear the call-up,
D
- C
you must not act the way you
were brought up.
D
- C
Who gives you work, and why
should you do it ?
D
- C
At fifty five minutes past
eleven.
D - C - D
- C
There is a rose.
D - C
It's up to you not to heed the
call-up !
D
C
It's up to you not to hear the
call-up, I don't wanna die !
D
- C
There is a rose that I want to
live for,
D
- C
It's up to you not to heed the
call-up ! ....
(The Clash)