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Date: 4/3/02; 8:38:06 PM
>From: "Adam Burke" <adambburke@hotmail.com>
Subject: Travelin' Soldier by The Dixie Chicks
As performed on the 2001 CMA awards by the Dixie Chicks
Chords/Lyrics
"Travelin Soldier" written by Bruce Robison & Frank Braniff
Transcribed by Adam Burke
F#m (244222), C7 (020100)
CAPPO ON 1ST FRET
Intro: B D A
A
Two days past eighteen
He was waiting for the bus in his army greens
D
Sat down in a booth in a cafe there
A
Gave his order to a girl with a bow in her hair
A
He's a little shy so she gave him a smile
So he said would you mind sitting down for a while
D
And talking to me
A
I'm feeling a little low
G
She said I'm off in an hour
D A
And I know where we can go
A
So they went down and they sat on the pier
He said I bet you got a boyfriend but I don't care
D A
I got no one to send a letter to
G D A
Would you mind if I sent one back here to you
F#m D
I cried never gonna hold the hand of another guy
A
Too young for him they told her
C7
Waiting for the love of the travellin soldier
F#m
My love will never end
D
Waiting for the soldier to come back again
A C7
Never more to be alone when the letter says
A
My soldiers coming home
A
The letters came from an army camp
In California and Viet Nam
D
He told her of his heart and it might be love
A
And all of the things he was so scared of
A
He said when it's getting kinda tough over here
I think of that day sitting down at the pier
D A
And I close my eyes and see your pretty smile
G
Don't worry but
D A
I won't be able to write for awhile
F#m D
I cried never gonna hold the hand of another guy
A
Too young for him they told her
C7
Waiting for the love of the travellin soldier
F#m
My love will never end
D
Waiting for the soldier to come back again
A C7
Never more to be alone when the letter says
A
My soldiers coming home
SOLO
A
One Friday night at a football game
The lords prayer said and the anthem sang
D
The man said
Folks would you bow your head
A
For the list of local Viet Name dead
A
Crying all alone under the stands
Was the picolo player in the marching band
D A
And one name read nobody really cared
G D A
But a pretty little girl with a bow in her hair
F#m D
I cried never gonna hold the hand of another guy
A
Too young for him they told her
C7
Waiting for the love of the travellin soldier
F#m
My love will never end
D
Waiting for the soldier to come back again
A C7
Never more to be alone when the letter says
My soldiers coming
A
My soldiers coming home.