The Queen and the Soldier Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am][F][C][G][C][G][Am][F]
[C][G][C]

[Verse 1]
The [Am]soldier
came knocking upon the queen's [F]door
He said, [C]"I am [G]not fighting
for [C]you [G]any more"
The [Am]queen knew she'd seen
his [F]face someplace before
And [C]slowly [G]she let him inside.

[Verse 2]
[C]He said, "I'[Am]ve watched your
palace up here on [F]the hill
And I've [C]wondered who's [G]the
woman for [C]whom we [G]all kill
But I am [Am]leaving tomorrow
and you can [F]do what you will
Only [C]first I [G]am asking [C]you why."

[Verse 3]
[F]Down in the long narrow
[C]hall he was led
[Dsus4]Into her rooms with her tape[D]stries red
And [Am]she never once took
[F]the crown from her head
[C]She asked [G]him there to sit down.
[C]

[Verse 4]
He said, [Am]"I see you now,
[F]and you are so very young
But I've [C]seen more [G]battles lost
than I [C]have [G]battles won
And I've [A]got this [Am]intuition,
says [F]it's all for your fun
And [C]now will [G]you tell me [C]why?"

[Verse 5]
Well the [Am]young queen,
she fixed him with an [F]arrogant eye
She said, "You [C]won't [G]understand,
and you [C]may as well [G]not try"
But her [Am]face was a child's,
and he [F]thought she would cry
But she [C]closed her[G]self up like a [C]fan.

[Verse 6]
And she [F]said,
"I have swallowed a [C]secret burning thread
It [D]cuts me [Dsus4]inside, and o[D]ften I've bled"
[Am]He laid his hand then on t[F]op of her head
And [C]he bowed [G]her down to the [C]ground.[F]
[C]

[Interlude 1]
[Dsus4][D][Dm][Am][F]
[C][G][C]

[Verse 7]
"Tell me [Am]how hungry are you? How
[F]weak you must feel
As you [C]are living [G]here alone,
and you are [C]never re[G]vealed
But I [A]won't march [Am]again
on [F]your battlefield"
And he [C]took her to [G]the window [C]to see.

[Verse 8]
And the [Am]sun, it was gold,
though the [F]sky, it was gray
And [C]she [G]wanted more than
she [C]ever could [G]say
But she [A]knew how it frightene[Am]d her,
and [F]she turned away
And [C]would not look [G]at his
face [C]again.

[Verse 9]
[F]And he said,
"I want to live as [C]an honest man
To [Dsus4]get all I des[D]erve and to
give all I [Dsus4]can
And to [Am]love a young woman
who I [F]don't understand
Your [C]highness,
[G]your ways are [C]very strange."

[Verse 10]
But the [Am]crown, it had fallen,
and she thought she [F]would break
And she [C]stood there,
[G]ashamed of the [C]way her [G]heart ached
She [Am]took him to the doorstep and she
[F]asked him to wait
She would [C]only [G]be a moment in[C]side.

[Verse 11]
[Am]Out in the distance her
order [F]was heard
And the [C]soldier [G]was killed,
still [C]waiting for [G]her word
And while the [Am]queen went on strangling
in the [F]solitude she preferred
The [C]battle [G]continued on.[C][G]

[Outro 1]
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[D][Dsus4][D][Dm][Am][F][C]
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