• Song:

    The Soldiering Life

  • Artist:

    The Decemberists

  • Album:

    2004-11-15: The Quad, L...

D5

D5                          C#5      
Ambling madly all over the town 
                                D5
The call to arms you liken to a whisper,
          C#5
I liken to a radio.
D5                             C#5
You were a brickbat, a bowery tuff, so rough
                      D5
They culled you from a cartoon
           C#5
Pulled out of your pantaloons.


    A5
But you,
              G#5
My brother in arms,
               F#5
I'd rather I'd lose my limbs 
                     E5
Than let you come to harm.
     A5
But you ,
            G#5
My bombazine doll,
                F#5
The bullets may singe your skin 
                E5
And the mortars may fall.


    A5
But I,
             E5
I never felt so much life
     F#5
Than tonight
               D5
Huddled in the trenches,
              A5
Gazing on the battle field,
           E5
Our rifles blaze away;
   G5             D5
We blaze away.


D5                         C#5
Corporal Bradley of regiment five
                               D5
In proud array standing by the bathing
          C#5
Soldiers and the stevedores.
D5                                      C#5
We laid on the mattress and tumbled to sleep
                                D5
Our eyes aligned, swaddled in our civies
              C#5
Cradled in our dungarees.


    A5
But you,
              G#5
My brother in arms,
               F#5
I'd rather I'd lose my limbs 
                     E5
Than let you come to harm.
     A5
But you ,
            G#5
My bombazine doll,
                F#5
The bullets may singe your skin 
                E5
And the mortars may fall.


    A5
But I,
             E5
I never felt so much life
     F#5
Than tonight
               D5
Huddled in the trenches,
              A5
Gazing on the battle field,
           E5
Our rifles blaze away;
      G5          D5
We blaze away.   
   A5             E5
We blaze away.
   G5             D5
We blaze away.


A5 E5 G5 D5 (2x) D5
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