Pretty Young Soldier

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[Verse]
  D                  Am            
There are two young lovers, they're
C                      G
 pledged to each other's hands,
  D              Am         C    
They meet by the river, to talk 
                G
of their marriage plans.
  D               Am        C    
“I'm confessing,” he said, “I've 
             G
signed for a soldier,
  D             Am         C
I'm leaving tomorrow for some 
foreign land.”

[Chorus]
F               G           D
She watches the pretty young 
soldiers,
F               G           D
As they march themselves off to the 
war.
F               G           D
She wonders if she'll ever see him 
again,
F               G           A
Somehow she doubts it, but she has 
to be sure.

[Verse]
D           Am        C         
So she rode into town on the 
        G
very next day,
D           Am        C         
And dressed herself up all in 
        G
man's array.
D                Am        C    
With a sword and a musket she 
             G
took the King's shilling,
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D                   Am
And to fight in some foreign war,
         C
She said, “Yes!,” she'd be willing.

[Chorus]
F        G           D
All you pretty young soldiers,
F               G           D
In those uniforms that you've never 
worn.
F               G           D
The Captain will come to inspect you
 all now,
F                  G             
“Let me down and you'll all wish 
     A
you'd never been born.”

[Verse]
     Bm                            
The Captain astride of his horse's 
         F#m
grey flanks,
          A
Pulls the pretty young soldier from 
out of the ranks.
    B                         
His gaze it is fixed and she's 
                  F#m
starting to shake,
          A
He said, “Follow me soldier and 
listen to the offer that I'm willing
 to make.”

[Chorus]
F        G             D
“Come you pretty young soldier,
F        G           D
Come and be my right hand.
F                  G             
You're having this strange effect
     A
 on my soul,
            G                   A
That I don't quite understand.”

[Bridge]
F            G            
“Captain, oh Captain, I've a 
      D
confession to make,
   F                    G         
I love someone else and my heart 
       D
it will break.”
    F                   G         
And as she released her brown hair
        A
 from a band,
   F                    G         
It tumbled all down her shoulders 
             A
and into his hands.

[Chorus]
F        G           D
“Oh you pretty young soldier,
F        G             D
Come and take my right hand.
F                  G             
You're having this strange effect
    D
 on my soul,
G                     D
And now I think, I understand.”