Jerry Garcia – Two Soldiers (Guitar)

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He was just a blue-eyed Boston boy

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His voice was low with pain

     D               C
I'll do your bidding comrade mine

                G
If I ride back again

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But if you ride back and I am left

    D
You do as much for me

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Mother, you know, must hear the news

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So write to her tenderly

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She's waiting at home like a patient saint

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Her fond face pale with woe

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Her heart will be broken when I am gone

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I'll see her soon I know

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Just then the order came to charge

       D
For an instant hand touched hand

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They said "aye" and away they rode

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That brave and devoted band

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Straight was the track to the top of the hill

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The rebels they shot and shelled

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Ploughed furoughs of death through the toiling ranks

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And guarded them as they fell

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There soon came a horrible dying yell

     D
From heights they could not gain

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And those that doom and death had spared

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Rode slowly down again

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But among the dead that were left on the hill

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Was the boy with the curly hair

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The tall dark man that rode by his side

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Lay dead beside him there

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There's no one to write to the blue-eyed girl

    D
The words her lover had said

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Mom, you know, awaits the news

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She'll only know he's dead