The Soldiering Life chords by
The Decemberists
The Decemberists

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Key: A major
Verse 1
D
D

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C#
C#

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Ambling madly all over the town
D
D

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The call to arms, you're likened to a whisper
C#
C#

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D
D

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I liken to a radio
C#
C#

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You were a brick bag a bowery tough,
so rough
D
D

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They called you from a cartoon
F#m
F#m

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C#
C#

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Pulled out of your pan taloons
Verse 2
A
A

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But You
G#
G#

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My brother in arms
F#m
F#m

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I'd rather I'd lose my limbs
Than let you come to harm
E
E

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Verse 3
A
A

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But You
G#
G#

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My bombazine doll
F#m
F#m

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The bullets may singe your skin
E
E

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And the mortars may fall
Verse 4
A
A

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But I
E
E

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I never felt so much life
F#m
F#m

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Than tonight
D
D

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Huddled in the trenches
A
A

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Gazing on the battle field
E
E

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Our rifles blaze away
G
G

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We blaze away
D
D

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Verse 5
C#
C#

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Corporal Bradley of regiment five
And proud array standing
D
D

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by the bathing
C#
C#

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D
D

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Soldiers and the stevedores
We laid on the mattress and
C#
C#

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tumbled to sleep
D
D

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Our eyes align, swaddled in our civies
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Cradled in our dungarees
Verse 6
A
A

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But You
G#
G#

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My brother in arms
F#m
F#m

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I'd rather I'd lose my limbs
Than let you come to harm
E
E

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Verse 7
A
A

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But You
G#
G#

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My bombazine doll
F#
F#

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F#m
F#m

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The bullets may singe your skin
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E

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And the mortars may fall
Verse 8
A
A

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But I
E
E

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I never felt so much life
F#m
F#m

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Than tonight
D
D

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Huddled in the trenches
A
A

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Gazing on the battle field
E
E

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Our rifles blaze away
G
G

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D
D

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We blaze away
A
A

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E
E

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We blaze away
G
G

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We blaze away
Outro 1
D
D

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A

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E
E

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G
G

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D
D

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A
A

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E
E

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