Traveling Soldier chords by The Chicks (Official Version)
Verse 1
G
Two days past eighteen
He was Waiting for the bus in his army green
C
Sat down in a booth in a cafe there
G
Gave his order to a girl with a bow in her hair
He's a little shy so she give him a smile
And he said
"Would you mind sittin' down for a while
C
G
and talkin' to me, I'm feeling a little low"
F
She said "I'm off in an hour
C
G
and I know where we can go"
Verse 2
G
So they went down and they sat on the pier
He said "I bet you got a boyfriend
C
but I don't care I got no one
G
to send a letter to
F
C
Would you mind if I sent one back
G
D/F#
here to you?"
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Chorus 1
Em
D
I cried
C
G
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
D
Em
Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier
D
Our love will never end
C
G
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
D
Never more to be alone when the letter says
G
A soldier's coming home
Verse 3
G
So the letters came from an army camp
In California then Vietnam
C
And he told her of his heart
G
It might be love and all of the things
he was so scared of
He said when it's getting
kinda rough over here
I think of that day sittin' down at the pier
C
And I close my eyes
G
and see your pretty smile
F
C
Don't worry but I won't be able
G
to write for a while"
Chorus 2
Em
D
I cried
C
G
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
D
Em
Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier
D
Our love will never end
C
G
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
D
Never more to be alone when the letter says
G
A soldier's coming home
Solo 1
G
G
C
G
Solo 2
G
G
C
G
F
C/E
G
G
Verse 4
G
One Friday night at a football game
The Lord's Prayer said and the anthem sang
C
A man said folks would you bow your head
G
For the list of local Vietnam dead
Crying all alone under the stands
Was the piccolo player in the marching band
C
G
And one name read and nobody really cared
F
C
G
But a pretty little girl with a bow in her hair
Chorus 3
Em
D
I cried
C
G
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
D
Em
Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier
D
Our love will never end
C
G
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
D
Never more to be alone when the letter says
A soldier's coming
Em
D
I cried
C
G
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
D
Ebdim
Em
Waitin' for the love of a travelin' sol dier
D
Our love will never end
C
G
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
D
Never more to be alone when the letter says
G
A soldier's coming home
Outro 1
G
C
G
C
G
C
G
C
[Repeat and fade}
Traveling Soldier
The Chicks
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