Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Difficulty: Novice
Intro:
E MajorE E7E7 E minor 7Em7 C majorC D MajorD E7E7 E minor 7Em7 C majorC D MajorD E MajorE
Verse:
D MajorD
He was just a blue eyed Boston boy
A augmentedA
His voice was low with pain
E MajorE D MajorD
I'll do your bidding comrade mine
A augmentedA
If I ride back again
E MajorE A augmentedA
But if you ride on and I should fall
E MajorE
You'll do as much for me
A augmentedA D MajorD
Mother at home is awaiting the news
E MajorE A augmentedA
So write her tenderly
Verse:
E MajorE D MajorD
She is waiting at home like a patient saint
A augmentedA
Her fond face pale with woe
E MajorE D MajorD
Her heart will be broken when I am dead
A augmentedA
I'll see her face no more
E MajorE A augmentedA
Just then the order came to charge
E MajorE
For a moment hand touched hand
A augmentedA D MajorD
They answered "Aye" and away they rode
E MajorE A augmentedA
That brave and devoted band
Verse:
E MajorE D MajorD
Straight way was the course to the top of the hill
A augmentedA
And the rebels with shot and shell
E MajorE D MajorD
Ploughed furrows of death through the toiling ranks
A augmentedA
And guarded them as they fell
E MajorE A augmentedA
There soon came a horrible dying sound
E MajorE
From the heights they could not gain
A augmentedA D MajorD
And those that doom and death had spared
E MajorE A augmentedA
Rode slowly back again
Verse:
E MajorE D MajorD
But among the dead at the top of the hill
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Was the boy with the golden hair
E MajorE D MajorD
And the tall dark man that rode by his side
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Lay still beside him there
E MajorE A augmentedA
There was no one to write to his blue-eyed girl
E MajorE
The words that her lover had said
A augmentedA D MajorD
And mother at home is awaiting the news
E MajorE A augmentedA
She'll only find he's dead
A augmentedA D MajorD
While mother at home is awaiting the news
E MajorE A augmentedA
She'll only find he's dead