Soldier Blue chords by Buffy Sainte-Marie

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Advanced

Key: Bb majorBb

🎸 Verse :

Bb majorBb   Eb/BbEb/Bb   Bb majorBb
I look out and I see a land
Eb/BbEb/Bb   Bb majorBb  Eb/BbEb/Bb   BB   C# minorC#m B/D#B/D#
Young and lovely hard and strong
E MajorE     BB       E MajorE        BB
For fifty thousand years we’ve danced her praises
FF
Prayed our thanks and we’ve just begun


🎸 Chorus:

Bb majorBb  F/AF/A   G minorGm Bb/FBb/F
This this is my country
Eb MajorEb    Bb/DBb/D    C minorCm    FF
Young and growing and free and flowing
    Bb majorBb F/AF/A     G minorGm Bb/FBb/F
Sea to sea yes this is my country
Eb MajorEb    Bb/DBb/D  C minorCm     FF       Bb majorBb
Ripe and bearing miracles in every pond and tree
  F/AF/A       G minorGm  Bb/FBb/F
Her spirit walks the high country
    Eb MajorEb    Bb/DBb/D
Giving free wild samples
  C minorCm      FF      Bb majorBb
And setting an example how to give
F/AF/A     G minorGm Bb/FBb/F
Yes this is my country
Eb MajorEb      Bb/DBb/D  C minorCm     FF        DbDb
retching and turning like a baby learning how to live


🎸 Bridge:

          AbAb
I can stand upon a hill at dawn
E MajorE      BB   E MajorE      BB
Look all around me feel her surround me
    D MajorD                A augmentedA
Soldier blue can’t you see her life has just begun
   FF     C majorC   Eb MajorEb        FF
It´s beating inside us telling us she’s here to guide us
Bb majorBb   F/AF/A     G minorGm Bb/FBb/F
Soldier blue soldier blue
     Eb MajorEb    Bb/DBb/D   C minorCm   Bb majorBb   FF
Can’t you see that there’s another way to love her

🎸 Chorus 2:

Bb majorBb

F/AF/A     G minorGm Bb/FBb/F
Yes this is my country
Eb MajorEb      Bb/DBb/D    C minorCm       FF
I sprang from her and I’m learning how to count upon her
Bb majorBb  F/AF/A          G minorGm Bb/FBb/F
Tall trees and the corn is my country
 Eb MajorEb   Bb/DBb/D       C minorCm       FF
I guess I love her and I’m learning how to take care of her


🎸 Bridge 2:

DbDb          AbAb
When the news stories get me down
E MajorE    BB    E MajorE     BB
I take a drink of freedom to think of
D MajorD        A augmentedA
My America from toe to crown
FF     C majorC      Eb MajorEb       FF
It's never long before I know just why I belong here


Coda:

Bb majorBb     F/AF/A     G minorGm Bb/FBb/F
Ooh soldier blue soldier blue
     Eb MajorEb    Bb/DBb/D   C minorCm    Bb majorBb  FF
Can't you see that there's another way to love her
    Bb majorBb F/AF/A    G minorGm Bb/FBb/F
Soldier blue soldier blue
     Eb MajorEb    Bb/DBb/D   C minorCm    Bb majorBb  FF
Can't you see that there's another way to love her
    Bb majorBb F/AF/A    G minorGm Bb/FBb/F
Soldier blue soldier blue
     Eb MajorEb    Bb/DBb/D   C minorCm    Bb majorBb  FF
Can't you see that there's another way to love her