Misc Traditional – When This Cruel War Is Over Or Weeping Sad And Lonely (Guitar)

Capo 5
Key
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Versions (2)

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Chords

[Verse 1]
  C                    F
Dearest love, do you remember

  C               G
When we last did meet,

 C                         F
How you told me that you loved me

  C       G     C
Kneeling at my feet.

 G                         Am
Oh how proud you stood before me

 F               G     G7
In your suit of blue.

 C                         F
There you vowed to me and country

  C   G     C
Ever to be true.
[Chorus]
 F                C
Weeping sad and lonely

 C                    G
Hopes and fears, how vain.

  Am                    F
When this cruel war is over,

  C    G           C
Pray that we meet again.
[Verse 2]
  C                         F
When the summer breeze is sighing

  C          G
Mournfully along,

 C                         F
Or when autumn leaves are falling,

  C    G             C
Sadly breathes this song.

 G                        Am
Oft in dreams I see thee lying

 F             G     G7
On the battle plain.

 C                     F
Lonely, wounded, even dying,

  C      G      C
Calling out in vain.
[Chorus]
 F                C
Weeping sad and lonely

 C                    G
Hopes and fears, how vain.

  Am                    F
When this cruel war is over,

  C    G           C
Pray that we meet again.
[Verse 3]
  C                F
If amid the din of battle

  C               G
Nobly you should fall,

 C                        F
Far away from those that love you,

  C      G        C
None to hear you call,

 G                          Am
Who would whisper words of comfort?

 F                   G     G7
Who would ease your pain?

 C                 F
Ah, the many cruel fancies

  C  G      C
Ever in my brain.
[Chorus]
 F                C
Weeping sad and lonely

 C                    G
Hopes and fears, how vain.

  Am                    F
When this cruel war is over,

  C    G           C
Pray that we meet again.
[Verse 4]
  C                          F
But our country called you, darling,

  C                G
Angels cheer your way.

 C                          F
While our nation's sons are fighting,

  C      G    C
We can only pray.

 G                          Am
Nobly strike for God and Liberty,

 F               G     G7
Let all nations see

 C                     F
How we love the starry banner,

  C     G      C
Emblem of the free.