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TOO LONG A SOLDIER - Pat Benatar
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Transcribed by: Anne Drury
Email: [email protected]
Date: October 1, 2005
Written by: N.Geraldo, M.Grombacher
CD: "Wide Awake In Dreamland" (1988, Chrysalis Records)
INTRO:
E F#m (2x) E F#m E E F#m
E F#m E E F#m E E C#m
1ST VERSE:
C#m
We were the children of '45
C#m
Loaded like pistols and taught how to die
B A C#m
We looked the enemy straight in the eye (And never surrendered)
C#m
Through trenches dug in the back of my mind
C#m
I go over the top time after time
B A C#m
Me and the ones we left behind (Faces I'll always remember)
CHORUS:
E
Now there's no fight left within me
D F#m C#m
But the writing of this wrong
C#m B A
As nations we're divided, but as people we are one
A E B
Like brothers in blood, it seems that we've been
C#m
Too long a soldier
E B C#m
2ND VERSE:
C#m
In the city of monuments
C#m
Among the flags of all governments
B A C#m
The order of battle is written in the shadows of a hard black line
C#m
Where people cry for a nation's scars
C#m
And heroes sleep beneath a blanket of stars
B A C#m
Too young to die, but never too old to play the General's game
CHORUS:
E
Now there's no life left within them
D F#m C#m
But the memory lingers on
C#m B A
As nations we're divided, but as people we are one
A E B
For brothers in blood we sing that we've been
C#m
Too long a soldier
BRIDGE:
A E
B E
Eternal flames blow in the wind,
E A B
I've been too long a soldier
B E
Captain of the Guard, I'm coming in
E A B
Too long, too long a soldier
F#m A
I've seen so much worth dying for
F#m A C#m
So little worth killing over
B C#m
Hey
BREAK:
C#m E B C#m (play progression 2x)
F#m A A B
BRIDGE:
B E
Eternal flames blow in the wind,
E A B
I've been too long a soldier
B E
Captain of the Guard, I'm coming in
E A B
Too long, too long a soldier
F#m A
I've seen so much worth dying for
F#m A
So little worth killing over
B E
Soldiers gone before me
E A B
I will surely fade away
B E
My eyes have seen the glory, and the suffering and the pain
E A B
I've been too long a soldier
E A B
Too long, too long a soldier
E A B
I've been too long a soldier
C#m E
B C#m
(Too long a soldier)
C#m E
Eternal flames blow in the wind
B C#m
(Too long a soldier)
C#m E
My eyes have seen the glory of
B C#m
(Too long a soldier)
C#m E B C#m
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
C#m E B B C#m
Oooh, ooh, ooh
C#m E B B C#m
Oooh, ooh, ooh...
B
C#m E B B C#m (fade on this progression)
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(This file is the transcriber's own work and represents
their interpretation of the song.)
