The Soldiering Life chords by The Decemberists

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

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

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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
D 
I never felt so much life
Em 
Than tonight
C 
Huddled in the trenches
G 
Gazing on the battle field
D 
Our rifles blaze away
F 
We blaze away
C 

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

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

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

Verse 8
G 
But I
D 
I never felt so much life
Em 
Than tonight
C 
Huddled in the trenches
G 
Gazing on the battle field
D 
Our rifles blaze away
F 
C 
We blaze away
G 
D 
We blaze away
F 
We blaze away