The Soldiering Life chords by The Decemberists

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Verse 1
C 
B 
 (C major) Ambling madly all over the town  (B major) 
C 
The call to arms, you're likened to a  (C major) whisper
B 
C 
I liken to  (B major) a radio  (C major) 
B 
You were a brick bag a bowery tough,  (B major) 
so rough
C 
They called you from a  (C major) cartoon
Em 
B 
Pulled out of  (E minor) your pan (B major) taloons

Verse 2
G 
But You  (G major) 
F# 
My brother in arms  (F sharp major) 
Em 
I'd rather I'd lose  (E minor) my limbs
Than let you come to harm
D 
 (D major) 

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Verse 3

But You

My bombazine doll

The bullets may singe your skin

And the mortars may fall

Verse 4
G 
But I  (G major) 
D 
I never felt so  (D major) much life
Em 
Than to (E minor) night
C 
Huddled in the  (C major) trenches
G 
Gazing on the  (G major) battle field
D 
Our rifles blaze  (D major) away
F 
We blaze  (F major) away
C 
 (C major) 

Verse 5
B 
Corporal Bradley of regiment five  (B major) 
And proud array standing
C 
by the  (C major) bathing
B 
C 
Soldiers  (B major) and the stevedores  (C major) 
We laid on the mattress and
B 
tumbled to sleep (B major) 
C 
Our eyes align, swaddled in our  (C major) civies
B 
Cradled in  (B major) our dungarees

Verse 6
G 
But You  (G major) 
F# 
My brother in arms  (F sharp major) 
Em 
I'd rather I'd  (E minor) lose my limbs
Than let you come to harm
D 
 (D major) 

Verse 7
G 
But You  (G major) 
F# 
My bombazine  (F sharp major) doll
E 
Em 
The bullets may singe  (E major)  (E minor) your skin
D 
And the mortars may  (D major) fall

Verse 8
G 
But I  (G major) 
D 
I never felt so  (D major) much life
Em 
Than to (E minor) night
C 
Huddled in the  (C major) trenches
G 
Gazing on the  (G major) battle field
D 
Our rifles blaze  (D major) away
F 
C 
We blaze  (F major) away  (C major) 
G 
D 
We blaze  (G major) away  (D major) 
F 
We blaze  (F major) away