Cody Johnson – Travelin Soldier (Guitar)

Drop Db (Db-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb) • Capo 2 Video Lesson
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From CoJo’s cover on youtube **For D/F# chord Cody just hammers on pinky to 4th fret of D string** [Intro]
               D
Eb|------------2-----|
Bb|------------3-----|
Gb|------------2-----|
Db|-----0------4-----|
Ab|-0h2---2p0--0-----|
Db|------------0-----|
D D/F# D [Verse 1]
D
Two days past eighteen, he was waiting on the
bus in his army green
    G                                 
Sat down in a booth in a cafe there, gave his

D
order to a girl with a bow in her hair

D
He's a little shy so she give him a smile
He said would you mind sittin' down for a
           G                                 D
while, and talking to me, I'm feeling pretty low

             Am7                G
She said I'm off in an hour and I know a

             D
place we can go
D D/F# D [Verse 2]
D
So they went down and they sat on the pier,
he said I bet you got a boyfriend but I don't care
       G                           D
Cuz’ I got no one to send a letter to

          Am7             G                D
Would you mind if I sent one back here to you
[Chorus]
Bm
I cried

G
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy

D
Too young for him they told her

A                                   A#dim7
Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier

Bm
Our love will never end

G
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again

D
Never more to be alone

          A                               D
When the letter says, a soldier's coming home
D [Verse 3]
        D
So the letters came from an army camp, in
California then Vietnam
        G
And he told her of his heart, how it might be

         D
love and all of the things he was so scared of

    D
He said when it's getting kinda rough over
here, I sit and think about that day on the pier
       G                                 D
And I close my eyes and see your pretty smile

       Am7                  G
Don't worry but I won't be able to write for

  D
a while
[Chorus]
Bm
I cried

G
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy

D
Too young for him they told her

A                                   A#dim7
Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier

Bm
Our love will never end

G
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again

D
Never more to be alone

          A                               D
When the letter says, a soldier's coming home
D [Verse 4]
    D
One Friday night at a football game, the
Lord's Prayer said and the anthem sang
   G
A man said folks would you bow your head, for

  D                      D
a list of local Vietnam dead
D D/F#
D
Cryin’ all alone underneath the stands, was
the piccolo player in the marching band
    G                                D
And one name read and nobody really cared

             Am7                      G
Except that pretty little girl with a bow in

    D
her hair
[Chorus]
Bm
I cried

G
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy

D
Too young for him they told her

A                                   A#dim7
Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier

Bm
Our love will never end

G                          N.C.           
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again

D
Never more to be alone

          A                               Bm       G
When the letter says, a soldier's coming home

          A                               D
When the letter says, a soldier's coming home
D D/F# D D