Key: Bb major•
Verse 1
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Bb
F
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Into the ward of
the clean whitewashed halls
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Bb
Where the dead slept and
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Gm
sabers, and balls
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C
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born one day
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Bb
so young and so brave
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Cm
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Wearing still on his sweet yet pale face
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Edim
of the grave
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F
The lingering light of his
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Who'll tell his mother where
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Cm
Bb
her boy died?
Matted and damp are his
tresses of gold,
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F
Kissing the snow off that fair young brow.
Dm
D
Pale are the lips of most delicate mold,
Gm
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F
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Somebody's darling is dying now.
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Bb
purple -veined brow,
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Cm
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Brush off the wandering waves of gold.
Cross his white hands
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Edim
on his broad bosom now.
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F
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Somebody's darlin' is still within record
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F
Who'll tell his mother where the
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Eb
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boy died?
Somebody's watching and
waiting for him,
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F
yearning to hold him again
to her breast.
Dm
D
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Gm
Yet there he lies with his blue eyes so dim,
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F
and purple childlike lips half apart.
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F
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Tenderly bury the fair unknown dead,
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Cm
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pausing to drop on his grave a tear.
Carve on the wooden slab
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Edim
over his head
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somebody's darling slumbering here.
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Bb
Who'll tell his mother where
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Cm
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Eb
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the boy died?
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsEb Bb F D Gm...
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