Two Soldiers chords by Julie Miller

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: EADGBE

Julie Miller     Two Soldiers arranged by Julie & Buddy Miller
                  trad.

Julie Miller   vocals/acoustic guitar
Emmylou Harris  vocals
Buddy Miller   guitar
Brady Blades   drums
Joey Spampinato  bass
Phil Madeira   accordion
Ed Forte     hurdy gurdy
Steve Hindalong  percussion

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C majorC    G+G        FF
He was just a blue-eyed Boston boy
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His voice was low with pain
   G+G        FF
I'll do your bidding comrade mine
        C majorC
If I ride back again
  G+G          C majorC
But if you ride back and I am left
    G+G
You'll do as much for me
      C majorC     FF
Mother you know must hear the news
          C majorC  G+G C majorC FF C majorC
So write to her tenderly
   G+G           FF
She's waiting at home like a patient saint
            C majorC
Her fond face pale with woe
  G+G          FF
Her heart will be broken when I am gone
          C majorC
I'll see her soon I know
   G+G       C majorC
Just then the order came to charge
    G+G
For an instance hand touched hand
G+G         FF
They said aye and away they rode
            C majorC  G+G C majorC FF C majorC G+G C majorC FF C majorC
That brave and devoted band
     G+G          FF
Straight was the track to the top of the hill
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The rebels they shot and shelled
    G+G     C majorC
Plowed furrows of death
      FF
Through the toiling ranks
             C majorC
And guarded them as they fell
G+G             C majorC
There soon came a horrible dying yell
   G+G
>From heights that they could not gain
       C majorC     FF
And those who doom and death had spared
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Rode slowly back again
  G+G            FF
But among the dead that were left on the hill
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Was the boy with the curly hair
  G+G         FF
The tall dark man who rode by his side
          C majorC
Lay dead beside him there
    G+G           C majorC
There's no one to write to the blue-eyed girl
  G+G
The words that her lover had said
     C majorC   FF
Momma you know awaits the news
FF             C majorC
And she'll only know he's dead


>From Julie Miller "Broken Things"
Hightone Records 1999