Larosse chords by 
Bruce Robison 
N/A
Key: B major•
Verse 1
B
Two days past eighteen
he was waiting for the bus
and his army of greens
E
sat down in a booth.
B
Gaffey there gave his order
to a girl with a bow in her hair.
He's a little shy but she gave him a smile so he said,
Would you mind sitting down for a while
E
and talk ing to me?
B
I'm feeling a little low.
She said,
A
E
B
I'm off and I don't know where we can go
So they went down and they sat on the pier
He said, I bet you got a boyfriend
but I don't care
E
B
I got no one to send a letter to
A
Would you mind if I sent one
E
B
F#
G#m
back here to you?
F#
E
I cry, never gonna hold
the hand of another guy
B
Too young for him, they told her
F#
Wait ing for the love of a
traveling soldier
G#m
F#
Our love will never en d
E
Wait ing for the soldier to
come back again
B
Never more to be alone
F#
When the letter says
B
A soldier's coming home
Well, the letters came from an army camp
In California, then Vietnam
E
And he told her of his heart
B
He might be loving all of the things
She was so scared of
He said, when it's getting
kinda rough over here
I think of that day sitting down at the pier
E
and I close my eyes
B
And see your pretty smile
A
E
Don't worry but I won't be able
B
F#
G#m
to write for a while
F#
E
I'll cry, never gonna hold
the hand of another guy
B
Too young for him they told her
F#
Wait ing for the love of
a traveling soldier
G#m
F#
Our love will never en d
E
Wait ing for the soldier to
come back again
B
Never more to be alone
F#
When the letter says
B
The soldier's coming home
Interlude 1
Oh
B
E
B
E
B
E
B
A
E
B
E
B
Verse 2
B
One Friday night at a football game
The Lord's Prayer said
and the anthem sang
E
A man said, folks,
B
would you bow your head
For the list of local Vietnam dead
Crying all alone under the stands
Was a piccolo player in the
marching band
E
And one named Red,
B
and nobody really cared
A
But a pretty little girl
E
B
F#
G#m
with a bow in her hair
F#
E
I cry, never gonna hold
the hand of another guy
B
Too young for him they told her
F#
Wait ing for the love of a
traveling soldier
G#m
F#
Our love will never en d
E
Wait ing for the soldier to
come back again
B
Never more to be alone
F#
when the letter says
G#m
The soldier's coming I cry
F#
E
Nev er gonna hold the
hand of another guy
B
Too young for him, they told her
F#
Wait ing for the love
of the traveling soldier
G#m
F#
Our love will never en d
E
Wait ing for the soldier
to come back again
B
Never more to be alone
F#
When the letter says,
my soldier's coming home
G#m
F#
E
F#
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsB E A F# G#m
B
E
A
F#
G#m
Capo: 4
Transpose: 0
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