Operation Never Mind

Operation Never Mind Guitar Chords

James McMurtry
Album : The Horses and the Hounds
    [Intro]
Fmaj7  Am7  C  G  Fmaj7  Am7  C  G
 
[Verse]
C           Fmaj             G
We got an operation goin' on
C                     Fmaj7          G
And it don't have to trouble me and you
    Fmaj7                           C
The country boys will do the fighting
C                          Fmaj7          G
Now that fighting's all a country boy can do
C           Fmaj7            G
We got a handle on it this time
C                Fmaj7            G
No one's gonna tell us we were wrong
    Fmaj7                           C
We won't let the cameras near the fighting
C                       Fmaj7       G
That way we won't have another Vietnam
 
[Chorus]
Fmaj7                         G
No one knows, 'cause no one sees
Fmaj7                         G
No one cares, 'cause no one knows
Fmaj7                         G
No one knows, 'cause no one sees it on TV
Fmaj7  Am7  C  G  Fmaj7  Am7  C  G
 
 
[Verse 2]
C                 Fmaj7           G
She works a checkpoint in the city
C                Fmaj7            G
Choking on the gravel dust and smog
        Fmaj7                      C
She knows not to stop the black Suburban
C                        Fmaj7            G
Those guys will run you down just like a dog
C            Fmaj7            G
The KBR man knows her trailer
C                      Fmaj7            G
He hips her to some recon that he's found
   Fmaj7                              C
And he'll be coming by for a late inspection
C                            Fmaj7         G
And there'd best not be no soldier boy around
 
[Chorus]
Fmaj7                         G
No one knows, 'cause no one sees
Fmaj7                         G
No one cares, 'cause no one knows
Fmaj7                         G
No one knows, 'cause no one sees it on TV
 
[Bridge]
Fmaj7
And don't they look just like on "SEAL Team",
G
Lord, don't they look the best?
Fmaj7                                      C                  G
When we trot them out at halftime or the seventh inning stretch
   Fmaj7                            C       G         Am
They stand up in their uniforms and help us sell the show
Fmaj7                            G
Dying by their own hands for reasons we don't know
 
[Solo]
Fmaj7  G
Fmaj7  C  G
Fmaj7  C  G  Am
Fmaj7  G
 
[Verse]
C           Fmaj7            G
We got an operation going on
C                  Fmaj7          G
It don't have to trouble you and me
   Fmaj7              C
A KBR man cooks a T-bone
C                    Fmaj7     G
A soldier's choking down an MRE
C           Fmaj7            G
We just go on about our business
C           Fmaj7           G
Drop the kids off at the mall
   Fmaj7                      C
Play the Black Ops on the laptop
C                          Fmaj7         G
And don't make too big a fuss about it all
 
[Chorus]
Fmaj7                         G
No one knows, 'cause no one sees
Fmaj7                         G
No one cares, 'cause no one knows
Fmaj7                         G
No one knows, 'cause no one sees
Fmaj7                         G
No one cares, 'cause no one knows
Fmaj7                         G
No one knows, 'cause no one sees it on TV
 
Fmaj7  Am7  C  G  Fmaj7  Am7  C  G  Fmaj7  Am7  C  G
 
C           Fmaj7           G
We got an operation goin' on...