Wooden Toy Sword chords by Heather Alexander

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: EADGBE

Verse:
   A minorAm     DmDm       A minorAm    G+G
Oh a father and son, they were bonded as one
    C majorC       G+G     DmDm
But the heart of the family soon tore
     C majorC      G+G    DmDm     G+G
For out sounded the call, to one and to all
     C majorC      G+G      A minorAm
That the king and the land went to war

Chorus:
    A minorAm     DmDm       A minorAm   G+G
Oh, the laddie he cried, but his father denied
  C majorC       G+G    DmDm
To bring the young soldier along
      C majorC    G+G     DmDm    G+G
"For your might I award this wooden toy sword
    C majorC       G+G     A minorAm
And I charge you to carry this song"

      A minorAm    DmDm   A minorAm     G+G
Won't you come and wait for me at the gate
      C majorC     G+G       DmDm
With your wooden toy sword in your hand?
    C majorC      G+G      DmDm      G+G
It is then I will come with the beat of the drum
   C majorC      G+G      A minorAm
From defending my king and my land

    A minorAm     DmDm    A minorAm     G+G
So the father, he taught his son as he ought
  C majorC        G+G       DmDm
To defend both his hearth and his home
   C majorC       G+G      DmDm    G+G
But soon came the day that his Da went away
 C majorC        G+G    A minorAm
Across the wild horses of foam

Chorus:
    A minorAm     DmDm       A minorAm   G+G
Oh, the laddie he cried, but his father denied
  C majorC       G+G    DmDm
To bring the young soldier along
      C majorC    G+G     DmDm    G+G
"For your might I award this wooden toy sword
    C majorC       G+G     A minorAm
And I charge you to carry this song"

    A minorAm     DmDm     A minorAm       G+G
He practiced 'til night with skill and with might
  C majorC      G+G      DmDm
To learn how to fight for a king
     C majorC     G+G        DmDm     G+G
And he'd shun other boys with their useless new toys
      C majorC    G+G       A minorAm
And he'd whistle a song and he'd sing

    A minorAm      DmDm       A minorAm      G+G
Oh the years slowly turned, broad shoulders grew burned
   C majorC       G+G      DmDm
Fine hair lengthened to a proud mane
    C majorC     G+G      DmDm      G+G
In the middle of spring with a fell practice swing
     C majorC     G+G     A minorAm
The toy sword had broken in twain

   A minorAm       DmDm      A minorAm        G+G
The break caused him harm, as the wood pierced his arm
     C majorC         G+G      DmDm
And the blood flowed quite free to the ground
     C majorC     G+G       DmDm      G+G
As his vision grew dim the wind mourned out a hymn
   C majorC      G+G        A minorAm
That echoed these words round and round

Chorus:
    A minorAm     DmDm       A minorAm   G+G
Oh, the laddie he cried, but his father denied
  C majorC       G+G    DmDm
To bring the young soldier along
      C majorC    G+G     DmDm    G+G
"For your might I award this wooden toy sword
    C majorC       G+G     A minorAm
And I charge you to carry this song"

      A minorAm      DmDm       A minorAm     G+G
Though the day had grown late the young man went to wait
    C majorC       G+G    DmDm
And unsteadily gazed at the sky
    C majorC      G+G      DmDm       G+G
As the red sun sank low, it soon caused him to know
     C majorC      G+G       A minorAm
That his last day of childhood would die

      A minorAm  DmDm       A minorAm      G+G
The stars swam across the night sky with his loss
     C majorC     G+G      DmDm
And his father appeared in that sea
     C majorC      G+G      DmDm     G+G
And the drum of his heart nearly broke him apart
    C majorC      G+G       A minorAm
As he fell to the ground on one knee

     A minorAm   DmDm     A minorAm      G+G
For he'd come to wait for his Da at the gate
     C majorC     G+G      DmDm
With a broken toy sword in his hand
    C majorC        G+G       DmDm       G+G
From beyond death he'll come with the beat of love's drum
   C majorC    G+G      A minorAm