Key: C major
Intro 1
F
C
G
C
Verse 1
-legged army brat
G
C
Turned into a woman just like that
Who's that knocking at my door,
G
C
What would you pledge if I'd be your wife?
G
C
A hardship post and a randall knife?
F
C
Oh dear, what can the matter be
G
C
with the life in the regular infantry?
F
C
And why have you sequestered me
Am
G
beyond me?
G
C
Thirty days leaving back how it been
Where have you been and
C
G
C
And this little gentleman is your son
G
C
Forty -five pistol with a stovepipe jam
G
C
How did you save your worthless life?
G
C
Sweet disposition at a random night
Men drinking bourbon and
starting to swear
G
C
Wives in the kitchen like we don't care
Army brats sitting up on the stair
G
C
We know how the story ends
G
C
But the Ranger tab in the CIB
G
C
Little boy gives us the mystery
G
C
Of the man drinking absinthe friends
G
Am
G
A folded flag and a brand new life
G
C
Little piece of paper in his hand
G
C
But why would you abandon me
G
C
For the range of death and the CIB?
G
C
Oh Lord, the mournful history
G
C
Of a mother boy gone in the army
A life of skimping, a fear of harm
G
C
Twelve thousand dollars to buy the farm
A repossessed car and a
tear -stained face
G
C
Ninety days to get off the base 2
F
C
what in the world can the matter be?
F
C
another woman, praised to be,
G
Am
who gave her man to thee only?
you
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