G                                   Bm
The soldier asked my name and did I come here very often
        Em                               C
Well, I thought that he was asking me to dance
      G                     Bm
In my holy coat and hat and him in his red bonnet
          Em                          Am
We'd have made a lovely couple but we never had the chance

[Chorus]
G                    C
And now you say that you've got to go
G                     C
Well, if you must you must
G              C            D            G   C   G   D
I suppose that you need the sleep of the just

[Verse 2]
Well, it was a powerful day and there were black crows in the road
And I kept my strong opinions to my chest
I suppose I should have told them that I was on fire for you
When the bus burst into flames outside some place, 'The Poet's Rest'

[Chorus]
G                    C
And now you say that you've got to go
G                     C
Well, if you must you must
G              C            D            G   C   G   G7
I suppose that you need the sleep of the just

[Bridge]
  C                                       Bm
A girl woke up in a naked light and said, "Oh no, not again"
        C                                           G
He even looked like her brother in the army but she never mentions him
         B7                                    Em
He'll be tucked up in his bed tonight with his dirty-pictures girl
        C
Saying, 'You're some mother's daughter you know or is it
D      D/C  D/B  D/A
immaterial girl?'

[Verse 3]
Now she's pinned up upon the barracks wall in her home town
All the soldiers taking turns with their attentions
And as they speculate what she'd look like beneath that thin nightgown
His family pride was rising up as he cast his eyes down