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From: "Stephen  Hanson" <<a href="mailto:stephendhanson@loretel.net">stephendhanson@loretel.net</a>>
Subject: Traveling soldier
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:06:18 -0600

                      Traveling Soldier               Dixie Chicks
Transcribed by <a href="mailto:stephendhanson@loretel.net">stephendhanson@loretel.net</a>
seems simpler this way-like the studio version. ( 1st submission)
Capo 2nd fret
G
Two days past eighteen, he was waiting for the bus in his army greens
     C                                        G
Sat down in a booth,  a cafŽ there, gave his order to a girl with a bow in
G
Her hair. Heās a little shy so she give him a smile, and he said would
                                       C                                   G
You mind sitting down for awhile, and talking to me. Iām feeling a little
low
                        F                   C                    G
           She said Iām off in an hour, and I know where we can go
                       G
                      So they went down and they sat on the pier
                        G
He said I bet you got a boyfriend, but I donāt care
  C                             G
I got no one, to send a letter to
F                         C                G
Would you mind if I sent one back here to you?

Chorus
Em        C
I cried never gonna hold the hand of another guy
 G
Too young for him they told her
D
Waiting for the love of a traveling soldier
 Em                       C
Our love will never end, waiting for the soldier to come back again
 G                                 D                            G
Never more to be alone, when the letter says a soldiers coming home

Verse 2
          G
So the letters came from an army camp, in California then Vietnam
        C
And he told her of his heart, it might be love

       G
And of all the things he was so scared of
                        G
He said when itās getting kinda rough over here
                              G
I think of that day, sitting down at the pier
       C                                   G
And I close my eyes, and see your pretty smile
        F                  C                  G
Donāt worry but I wonāt be able to write for awhile

Chorus

Solo -  same chord progression as verse

Verse 3
 G
One Friday night at a football game

The Lords Prayer said and the Anthem sang
  C
A man said folks, would you bow your head
        G
For the list of local Vietnam dead
G
Crying all alone, under the stands

Was the piccolo player in the marching band
         C                                G
And the one named Red and nobody really cared
      F                     C              G
But a pretty little girl, with a bow in her hair

Chorus X2
Solo  G    C   x8
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