The Soldier chords by
Walter Martin

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Key: C major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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Tonight while Notre Dame is burning

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French people gather around

it and softly sing Ave Maria

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And the whole world cries

And my mind drifts back

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to long ago

Verse 2

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When I was 20 years old,

I went into the service

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A boy from Staten Island in the

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army corps of engineers

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And I got shipped off to sunny Honolulu

And I trained and played golf every

day in sunny Honolulu

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And my future brother-

in- law from

The Bronx was in Patton's

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army in Europe

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Two boys from the big city

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so far away from home

Verse 3

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One day, I was playing golf in Honolulu

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When an airplane came and it picked us

Up and I didn't know where

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we were go ing

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And it took us to an island

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called Iwo Jima

And I set up communication lines for

the soldiers there on Iwo Jima

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We'd already taken the island,

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so I didn't see much fighting

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Soon I was running short of things

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to do on Iwo Jima

Verse 4

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One night, I was wandering around

and I walked into a dark cave

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And my eyes water as I tell

this story to my

Children, and my grandchildren,

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and my great- grandchildren

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But I found a dead Japanese

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soldier lying there

And I poked him, and he was dead,

and I looked at him

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And I found a picture in his shirt

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pocket of a young child

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And I put it back in his shirt pocket,

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and I wept

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And I took his hand grenade,

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and an unexploded shell, and I left

Verse 5

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And I took the shell back to the

Quonset hut, and when no one was around

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I emptied out all of

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the gunpowder

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And later, I brought that shell back

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Home, back when people

used to smoke

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People used it for an ashtray

Verse 6

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And when the war was over

I married my soldier friend

from the Bronx's sister

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We moved into a little house near where

I grew up on Staten Island

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And every week,

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we had milk and beer delivered to our front door

We had five children,

one right after the other

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And they played in the yard,

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and in the summers we went up to the lake

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And in August,

we would go back home to Staten Island

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Verse 7

And our oldest daughter had a baby

when she was just 18

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And then she got sick

And she died when she was 27, and

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nothing was ever the same

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But she left behind her

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8- year- old daughter

So my wife and I,

we adopted this girl and we raised her

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A quiet little girl in a world of old people

Verse 8

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We took her to the Nutcracker and the

Catholic Church and we played

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lots of cards

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And she dyed her hair pink in the 8th

Grade, but we dyed it back

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the next day

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And the fella singing this song is her

Husband now,

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and he idolizes me for some reason

Verse 9

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And these days, in the summers

He leaves his daughters at the lake

with us

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And they garden with me

And I sing soldier songs to them

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when they go to bed

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While he's home in New York trying

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To write funny songs for TV commercials

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Interlude 1

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Verse 10

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Last summer at my 96th birthday in August

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I looked at my children holding their

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Children, and their children's children

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I sipped a cold beer

And ate peanuts on the porch

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with my brother- in- law

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We talked about old friends and gardening

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and the wives we'd both lost

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And my old heart was overcome with both

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joy and sadness

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Outro 1

End

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