Key: Eb major
Verse 1
F
G
a soldier came a -walkin'
Back from the long wars,
Gm
C#m
no more for to roam
G
F#m
When a woman he saw
G
C#m
come walking towards him
G
F#m
G
Singing to herself
as the mill there ahead?
She said that she was,
F#m
G
C#m
he asked to walk with her.
For several long years
Mary Johnson's my name.
A
G
the end of the year.
C#m
G
Em
The soldier's face was burnt brown
A
Am
It saddened and paled
for this last one he left
A
G
to his young brother Wen.
G
D
G
that I've come to tell.
G
D
through many's of the battle.
Am
G
on the day that he fell.
Em
G
His last dying words he said,
go and seek my brother.
Tell him to look after
my own darling Mary.
The girl I'd have married
when the long walls were old.
G
Gm
how deep she was sobbing,
she leaned on the dike,
G
Gm
so pale and so worn,
the soldier had gone.
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