Key: D major•
Verse 1
G
A
The pawns had searched the forest
D
Bb
to make bows and sticks and spears
Gm
G
D
A
sadly holding back regretful tears.
They headed for the battlefield
G
A
The king ordered positions
D
Bb
in between the castle walls
D
G
And ensured each pawn be buried
Gm
D
beneath the square on
Gm
A
D
which he falls
C
A
D
our King.
G
D
Gm
land.
The king and queen stood proudly
Em
A
But a hundred golden sovereigns
D
Bb
C
D
they saw through winter's mud
Bb
A
D
A
tinted by the pawn's own blood
The bishop whispered sacrifice,
A
D
and the front line charged and felled
Bb
A
the White King's men
D
G
Gm
The Bishop cried, the Queen has died,
A
Asus4
A
forgive us please, Amen
Attack, attack,
Em
A
The evening trembled there
D
A
Bb
C
D
in only half a darkened night
Bb
A
D
Bb
A
before next morning's light
D
Bb
I remember the sound
F
A
G
D
Bb
I remember I felt
D
F
like loving and hiding
G
D
Bb
D
I remember fighting again and again
F
A
D
Bb
I remember the clos
D
A
ing of a bridge
Aren't you ashamed
D
A
I feel the shame
A
D
Aren't you ashamed
G
C
Aren't you ashamed,
Bb
Eb
C
Aren't you ashamed,
F
A
of the stories you told
Don't you wish you could
Bb
A
Gm
A
never been?
Next morning all that could be seen
Em
A
No fear of non -survival,
D
Bb
A
no bloody battle dread
D
G
Gm
Just the fearful aftermath
A
D
Gm
A
of tallying the dead
The King cried out in wonder,
Em
A
No one heard the bishop
D
Bb
as he fell down and he cried
C
D
C
D
An d no one heard the widows
Gm
A
D
A
of the warriors that died
D
G
We are warriors of England
D
C
A
And we've come to serve our King
D
G
We are warriors of England
Gm
A
Courageously they sing
D
G
We're warriors of England
C
A
D
serve our King
Gm
A
D
Courageously they sing
We are warriors
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsA D G Bb Gm...
A
D
G
Bb
Gm
C
Em
Asus4
F
Eb
Capo: No capo
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