Bm              C#7 
Captured clandestine 
F#m               C#m 
Crawled into the lights 
D         A              G                   
He knew he was in for a shoeing 
Em                  F#  
Just wasn't to be his night 

Bm                      C#7 
Dragged out of the frozen Rhine 
F#m                            C#m 
For the Motherland and the Third Reich 
D         A                G           
A toeing's as good as a shoeing 
Em                  F# 
When it's not to be your night 


[Refrão]
Bm 
Tread carefully, so carefully 
Bb 
Upon the drifting ice 
Eb7M 
Caught behind enemy lines 
F    F# 
In 1939 

Bm          Bb 
For Germany he sacrificed his life 
Eb7M                     
Caught behind enemy lines                  
F      F# 
There in 1939 

Verse: 

Bm                   C#7 
Kids knee-deep in rubble 
F#m                     C#m 
London urchins grey with dust 
D        A                 G 
Packed off ours in evacuations 
Em               
To farmers' wives 

Green and pleasant lives 
F#m 
Far from the doodlebugs 
Bm                          C#7 
Nanna Doll she still remembers 
F#m                    C#m 
Leaving town in worn-out shoes 
D              A                   G 
Now she's back out west in sheltered accommodations 
Em                           F#m    
Homes for the old where pills aren't the only blues 



[Refrão]
Bm 
Tread carefully, so carefully 
Bbm 
Upon the drifting ice 
Eb7M 
Staring blank into the TV guide 
F     F# 
In 2009 

Bm                   Bb 
How it's hurting me, I've only seen her twice 
Eb7M 
Since you went west for the second time 
F        F# 
Since 1939