Sting - Children's Crusade: Guitar Chords

Learn to play "Children's Crusade" on your guitar with our detailed chord guide and lyrics. This page provides everything you need to perform this song on the guitar, including lyrics integrated with chords, chord diagrams, and a key transposer to match your vocal range.

Learn Children's Crusade Guitar Chords and Lyrics by Sting

This section will guide you through each part of the song, providing the guitar chords placed directly above the lyrics for easy playing. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced player, these elements will help you perform "Children's Crusade" smoothly on your guitar.

For easier playing, use our Simplify Chords feature to remove difficult chords like barre.

Bm             G         A            E
Young men and soldiers, nineteen fourteen.
 Bm               G          A            C
Marching through countries they'd  never seen
 Bm           G         A          E
Virgins with rifles, a game of charades
C           F            A
All for a children's crusade

Pawns in the game are not victims of chance
Strewn on the fields of Belgium and France
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed

Chorus:
      C         G              C         G
The children of England would never be slaves
          C             Bm       Em       A#
They're trapped on the wire and dying in waves
      C       G             C           G
The Flower of England face down in the mud
      C             Bm         Em        A#
And stained in the blood of a whole generation

Corpulent generals safe behind lines
History's lessons drowned in red wine
Poppies for young men, death's bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed

C          Bm7           Em
All for a children's crusade

Chorus - x2

Midnight in Soho, Nineteen Eighty-four
Fixing in doorways, opium slaves
Poppies for young men, such bitter trade
All of those young lives betrayed

All for a Children's Crusade


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Guitar Chord Diagrams

A

Guitar chord A

A#

Guitar chord A#

C

Guitar chord C

E

Guitar chord E

Em

Guitar chord Em

F

Guitar chord F

G

Guitar chord G

Bm

Guitar chord Bm

Bm7

Guitar chord Bm7

Here you can see detailed diagrams for each guitar chord used in the song. Utilize our key transposer to adjust the chords to a key that better fits your singing range. Simply select the desired key, and the chords throughout this page will update automatically, ensuring you can play and sing comfortably.

If you are also interested in learning how to play "Children's Crusade" on the ukulele, check out the chords on our sister site: Ukulele Chords for "Children's Crusade" by Sting.