#-------------------------------PLEASE NOTE-------------------------------------# # This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # # song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------# All Quiet Along The Potomac Tonight chords Beers / Hewitt Capo I A A E A "All quiet along the Potomac tonight," E E7 A except here and there a stray picket, E A is shot as he walks on his beat to and fro, E D E7 E by a rifleman hid in the thicket E7 E A E 'Tis nothing a private or two now and then, D A E will not count in the news of the battle D E A D Not an officer lost, only one of the men, A E E7 A moaning out all alone the death rattle. F#m E E7 E A "All quiet along the Potomac tonight!" A E A "All quiet along the Potomac tonight," E E7 A where the soldiers lie peacefully dreaming E A And their tents in the rays of the clear autumn moon, E D E7 E and the light of the camp fires are gleaming E7 E A E There's only the sound of the lone sentry's tread, D A E as he tramps from the rock to the fountain D E A D And thinks of the two on the low trundle bed, A E E7 A far away in the cot on the mountain. F#m E E7 E A "All quiet along the Potomac tonight!" A E A His musket falls slack his face, dark and grim, E E7 A grows gentle with memories tender E A As he mutters a pray'r for the children asleep, E D E7 E and their mother, "May heaven defend her!" E7 E A E The moon seems to shine as brightly as then, D A E that night, when the love yet unspoken. D E A D Leap'd up to his lips, and when low murmur'd vows, A E E7 A were pledg'd, to be ever un broken. F#m E E7 E A "All quiet along the Potomac tonight!" A E A Then drawing his sleeve roughly o'er his eyes, E E7 A he dashes off the tears that are welling E A And gathers his gun close up to his breast, E D E7 E as if to keep down the heart's swelling E7 E A E He passes the fountain, the blasted pine tree, D A E and his footstep is lagging and weary D E A D Yet onward he goes, thro' the broad belt of light, A E E7 A toward the shades of the forest so dreary. F#m E E7 E A "All quiet along the Potomac tonight!" A E A Hark! was it the night-wind that rustles the leaves, E E7 A was it the moonlight so wond'rously flashing? E A It look'd like a rifle! "Ha, Mary, good-bye!", E D E7 E and his life-blood is ebbing and plashing. E7 E A E "All quiet along the Potomac tonight," D A E no sound save the rush of the river D E A D While soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, A E E7 A the picket's off duty forev er. F#m E E7 E A "All quiet along the Potomac tonight!" F#m E E7 E A "All quiet along the Potomac tonight!" Set8 http://sites.google.com/site/guitarmusicchordsandlyrics/
