• Song:

    Travelin Soldier

  • Artist:

    Dixie Chicks

This is my first guitar tab entry so I apologize if there are any errors.

Travelin' Soldier ? Dixie Chicks

G
Two days past eighteen
He was waiting for the bus in his army green
Cadd9
Sat down in a booth in a cafe there
G
Gave his order to a girl with a bow in her hair
He's a little shy so she gives him a smile
And he said would you mind sittin' down for a while
Cadd9
And talking to me,
G
I'm feeling a little low
D/F#                                Cadd9                              G
She said I'm off in an hour and I know where we can go

G
So they went down and they sat on the pier
He said I bet you got a boyfriend but I don't care
Cadd9                                G
I got no one to send a letter to
D/F#                             Cadd9                  G
Would you mind if I sent one back here to you

D/F#  Em
         I cried
C        
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
G
Too young for him they told her
D/F#
Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier
Em
Our love will never end
C
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
G                                         D/F#
Never more to be alone when the letter said
                          G
A soldier's coming home

G
So the letters came from an army camp
In California then Vietnam
Cadd9
And he told her of his heart
                              G
It might be love and all of the things he was so scared of
He said when it's getting kinda rough over here
I think of that day sittin' down at the pier
         Cadd9                                              G
And I close my eyes and see your pretty smile
D/F#                                Cadd9                     G
Don't worry but I won't be able to write for awhile

D/F#  Em
         I cried
C        
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
G
Too young for him they told her
D/F#
Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier
Em
Our love will never end
C
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
G                                         D/F#
Never more to be alone when the letter said
                          G
A soldier's coming home

G (1 strum)       
One Friday night at a football game
G (1 strum)
The Lord's Prayer said and the Anthem sang
Cadd9 (1 strum)
A man said folks would you bow your heads
G (1 strum)
For a list of local Vietnam dead
G
Crying all alone under the stands
Was a piccolo player in the marching band
Cadd9
And one name read but nobody really cared
D/F#                       Cadd9                    G
But a pretty little girl with a bow in her hair

D/F#  Em
         I cried
C        
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
G
Too young for him they told her
D/F#
Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier
Em
Our love will never end
C
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
G                                         D/F#
Never more to be alone when the letter said
                       G
A soldier's coming 
D/F#  Em
         I cried
C        
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
G
Too young for him they told her
D/F#
Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier
Em
Our love will never end
C
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
G                                         D/F#
Never more to be alone when the letter said
                          G
A soldier's coming home
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