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All Quiet Along The Potomac Tonight chords
Beers / Hewitt

Capo I

A (x02220@1)    A (x02220@1)    E (022100@1)        A"All (x02220@1)quiet along the Potomac tonight,"
  E (022100@1)                   E7 (020130@1)  Aexcept (x02220@1)here and there a stray picket,
              E (022100@1)          A (x02220@1) 
is shot as he walks on his beat to and fro,
     E (022100@1)      D (xx0232@1)        E7 (020130@1)Eby (022100@1)a rifleman hid in the thicket
     E7 (020130@1)      E (022100@1)        A (x02220@1)         E'Tis (022100@1)nothing a private or two now and then,
         D (xx0232@1)                      A (x02220@1)Ewill (022100@1)not count in the news of the battle
       D (xx0232@1)     E (022100@1)        A (x02220@1)        DNot (xx0232@1)an officer lost, only one of the men,
        A (x02220@1)      E (022100@1)      E7 (020130@1)     Amoaning (x02220@1)out all alone the death rattle.

F#m (244222@1)      E (022100@1)name="chord_020130@1">E7  E (022100@1)A"All (x02220@1)quiet along the Potomac tonight!"

A (x02220@1)    E (022100@1)        A (x02220@1)        
"All quiet along the Potomac tonight,"
          E (022100@1)          E7 (020130@1)       Awhere (x02220@1)the soldiers lie peacefully dreaming
                       E (022100@1)         AAnd (x02220@1)their tents in the rays of the clear autumn moon,
        E (022100@1)          D (xx0232@1)            E7 (020130@1)Eand (022100@1)the light of the camp fires are gleaming
        E7 (020130@1)     E (022100@1)          A (x02220@1)           EThere's (022100@1)only the sound of the lone sentry's tread,
      D (xx0232@1)                         A (x02220@1) Eas (022100@1)he tramps from the rock to the fountain
    D (xx0232@1)           E (022100@1)        A (x02220@1)         DAnd (xx0232@1)thinks of the two on the low trundle bed,
     A (x02220@1)        E (022100@1)        E7 (020130@1)Afar (x02220@1)away in the cot on the mountain.

F#m (244222@1)      E (022100@1)name="chord_020130@1">E7  E (022100@1)A"All (x02220@1)quiet along the Potomac tonight!"

A (x02220@1)          E (022100@1)       A (x02220@1)        
His musket falls slack his face, dark and grim,
      E (022100@1)         E7 (020130@1)     Agrows (x02220@1)gentle with memories tender
                E (022100@1)            AAs (x02220@1)he mutters a pray'r for the children asleep,
          E (022100@1)          D (xx0232@1)      E7 (020130@1) Eand (022100@1)their mother, "May heaven defend her!"
    E7 (020130@1)          E (022100@1)      A (x02220@1)         EThe (022100@1)moon seems to shine as brightly as then,
     D (xx0232@1)                        A (x02220@1)Ethat (022100@1)night, when the love yet unspoken.
       D (xx0232@1)       E (022100@1)            A (x02220@1)          DLeap'd (xx0232@1)up to his lips, and when low murmur'd vows,
     A (x02220@1)            E (022100@1)  E7 (020130@1)name="chord_x02220@1">A
were pledg'd, to be ever un broken.

F#m (244222@1)      E (022100@1)name="chord_020130@1">E7  E (022100@1)A"All (x02220@1)quiet along the Potomac tonight!"

A (x02220@1)         E (022100@1)            A (x02220@1)        
Then drawing his sleeve roughly o'er his eyes,
   E (022100@1)            E7 (020130@1)           Ahe (x02220@1)dashes off the tears that are welling
    E (022100@1)                      AAnd (x02220@1)gathers his gun close up to his breast,
         E (022100@1)           D (xx0232@1)     E7 (020130@1) Eas (022100@1)if to keep down the heart's swelling
   E7 (020130@1)       E (022100@1)           A (x02220@1)          EHe (022100@1)passes the fountain, the blasted pine tree,
        D (xx0232@1)                     A (x02220@1)Eand (022100@1)his footstep is lagging and weary
    D (xx0232@1)       E (022100@1)             A (x02220@1)           DYet (xx0232@1)onward he goes, thro' the broad belt of light,
           A (x02220@1)            E (022100@1)   E7 (020130@1)   Atoward (x02220@1)the shades of the forest so dreary.

F#m (244222@1)      E (022100@1)name="chord_020130@1">E7  E (022100@1)A"All (x02220@1)quiet along the Potomac tonight!"

A (x02220@1)        E (022100@1)             A (x02220@1)        
Hark! was it the night-wind that rustles the leaves,
E (022100@1)                     E7 (020130@1)        Awas (x02220@1)it the moonlight so wond'rously flashing?
   E (022100@1)                       AIt (x02220@1)look'd like a rifle! "Ha, Mary, good-bye!",
        E (022100@1)           D (xx0232@1)        E7 (020130@1) E (022100@1)and his life-blood is ebbing and plashing.
     E7 (020130@1)   E (022100@1)        A (x02220@1)     E"All (022100@1)quiet along the Potomac tonight,"
   D (xx0232@1)                        A (x02220@1)Eno (022100@1)sound save the rush of the river
      D (xx0232@1)            E (022100@1)        A (x02220@1)         DWhile (xx0232@1)soft falls the dew on the face of the dead,
    A (x02220@1)          E (022100@1)     E7 (020130@1)name="chord_x02220@1">A
the picket's off duty forev er.

F#m (244222@1)      E (022100@1)name="chord_020130@1">E7  E (022100@1)A"All (x02220@1)quiet along the Potomac tonight!"

F#m (244222@1)      E (022100@1)name="chord_020130@1">E7  E (022100@1)A"All (x02220@1)quiet along the Potomac tonight!"

Set8

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