Call Out The Cavalry chords by Chuck Ragan

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice

Tabbed by: TheVolta

Capo on 1st fret

[intro]
G+G C majorC G+G D MajorD
G+G


G+G                  C majorC      G+G
Not another foot was stirring on the floor of the house
D MajorD              C majorC    G+G
except for my 'pa who'd been up for a while
G+G                C majorC       G+G
Seems he's headin' on after the bad word that came,
    D MajorD              C majorC       G+G
of his brothers who marched but were left down all slain

    D MajorD
Please call out the cavalry
C majorC      G+G
Send them along
   D MajorD
For we need out daddy,
  C majorC      G+G
and so does this farm

   C majorC
Mama stays awake to pray,
   G+G
in a lonely straw bed
    D MajorD
and we rise before the sun
     C majorC      G+G
with the work that he left

G+G C majorC G+G

G+G               C majorC        G+G
He took what mama made him to feed him on his way
  D MajorD             C majorC      G+G
he kissed all my brothers, my sisters, and me
   G+G            C majorC        G+G
he held my poor mama, looked down and said, "Son,
     D MajorD            C majorC      G+G
I'll be home soon, now hand me my coat and my gun."

    D MajorD
Please call out the cavalry
C majorC     G+G
Send them along
  D MajorD
For we need out daddy
  C majorC      G+G
and so does this farm

   C majorC
Mama stays awake to pray
   G+G
in a lonely straw bed
    D MajorD
and we rise before the sun
     C majorC      G+G
with the work that he left

G+G C majorC G+G
G MajorG D MajorD G+G C majorC G+G

G+G                  C majorC      G+G
It's been some days without him, but we've toiled away
D MajorD              C majorC        G+G
hang onto the cattle and the crops that we've laid
G+G              C majorC      G+G
mama sits by the window and stares until dark
   D MajorD          C majorC       G+G
and rocks by the fire and cries out her heart

    D MajorD
Please call out the cavalry
C majorC      G+G
Send my man home
  D MajorD
For we need out daddy
  C majorC      G+G
and so does this farm

   G+G             C majorC      G+G
mama stays awake to pray, in a lonely straw bed
    D MajorD              C majorC       G+G
and we rise before the sun, for the work that you left

G+G G MajorG C majorC G+G
G MajorG G+G D MajorD G+G

G+G             C majorC     G+G
been about a year since my daddy had gone
    D MajorD             C majorC       G+G
when I saw an old carriage, and a coat I'd once known
    G+G             C majorC        G+G
it was draped o'er a man who once stood proud and tall
  D MajorD            C majorC     G+G
now broken and battered and missing an arm

G+G                C majorC        G+G
he cried when he saw us, and the words they came slow
    D MajorD            C majorC       G+G
of the sunrise he found and the hell that he'd known
  G+G            C majorC     G+G
he asked for forgiveness for failing us all
   D MajorD           C majorC     G+G
his duty cut short, in the battle he lost

     D MajorD             C majorC      G+G
We said, "don't mind that daddy, for now you are home,
  D MajorD              C majorC      G+G
now mama cries for joy, and she won't sleep alone.
    C majorC               G+G
You've sons and you've daughters, now please use our arms."
  D MajorD              C majorC     G+G