Chocolate Soldier chords by Traditional

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

G+G               C majorC
As I walked towards the old town hall
  D MajorD           G+G
A augmentedA crowd of my mates by my side
             C majorC
To join up the Ulster Division
  D MajorD           G+G
I knew I was young but I lied
            C majorC
In the YCV they had trained me
   D MajorD           G+G
To honour and fight for my land
                C majorC
And I proudly paraded through Belfast
    D MajorD            G+G
To the sound of a fife and drum band.

 C majorC          G+G
Arriving in Europe it hit me
   C majorC          G+G
the reality of what I would do
     C majorC           G+G
I would clamber or the trench ladder
      D MajorD           G+G
When the captain his whistle he blew.
C majorC G+G D MajorD G+G

 G+G              C majorC
So tonight as i lie in this dugout
 D MajorD           G+G
Cold and encased in the mud
              C majorC
I long to be with you my darling
  D MajorD            G+G
To hold you as one of my blood

We'd walk hand in hand through old
C majorC
Belfast
 D MajorD               G+G
Through the streets that I love Sandy

Row
                C majorC
But I know that it will never happen
   D MajorD          G+G
For tomorrow to battle I go.

C majorC            G+G
Remember I always will love you
C majorC               G+G
Tell my ma and my da just the same
C majorC                G+G
I'm afraid like the lads here beside me
    D MajorD            G+G
That in France I will surely remain.

C majorC G+G D MajorD G+G
G MajorG
But I'd fight and I'd die for old
C majorC
Ulster
   D MajorD               G+G
For England and the red white and blue
                 C majorC
I would die for our leader Lord Carson
  D MajorD           G+G
The YCV are all loyal to you.
                C majorC
Don't be stirred my lads I am writing
  D MajorD              G+G
To my girl back in Belfast so true

She broke her wee heart when I left
C majorC
her
  D MajorD           G+G
My Ulster I do this for you

C majorC             G+G
So I bid you adue now my darling
     C majorC            G+G
For it's dark and I can't see to write
 C majorC           G+G
Remember the Ulster Division
   D MajorD           G+G
For Ulster will always be right

   C majorC           G+G
Yes remember the Ulster Division
   D MajorD           G+G
For Ulster will always be right.