The Decemberists – Soldiering Life (Guitar)

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Versions (3)

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Chords

VERSE 1
D                          C#
Ambling madly all over the town

                                D
The call to arms you likened to a whisper

               C#
I likened to a radio.

D                             C#
You were a brickbat, a bowery tough,

                                D
So rough they culled you from a cartoon.

                   C#
Pulled out of your pantaloons.
CHORUS
    A                  Ab
But you, my brother in arms,

               F#m                                E
I'd rather I'd lose my limbs than let you come to harm.

    A                 Ab
But you, my bombazine doll

                F#m                                 E
The bullets may singe your skin and the mortars may fall.

    A                 E
But I have never felt so much light

     F#m                     D
Than tonight, huddled in the trenches,

              A
Gazing on the battlefield.

           E
Our rifles blaze away.

   G                 D
We blaze away. Oh Oh Oh
VERSE 2
D                          C#
Corporal Bradley of regiment five

                                D
In proud array, standing by the bathing

                         C#
Soldiers and the stevedores.

D                                     C#
We laid on the mattress and tumbled to sleep

                                     D
Our eyes aligned, swaddled in our civies

                     C#
Cradled in our dungarees.
CHORUS
    A                  Ab
But you, my brother in arms,

               F#m                                E
I'd rather I'd lose my limbs than let you come to harm.

    A                 Ab
But you, my bombazine doll

                F#m                                 E
The bullets may singe your skin and the mortars may fall.

    A                 E
But I have never felt so much light

     F#m                     D
Than tonight, huddled in the trenches,

              A
Gazing on the battlefield.

           E
Our rifles blaze away.

   G                 D
We blaze away. Oh Oh Oh
OUTRO
   G                 D
We blaze away. Oh Oh Oh

   A                    E
We blaze away. Oh Oh Oh Oh

   G                 D
We blaze away. Oh Oh Oh