Queen And The Soldier

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Subject: /v/*
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[Actually in D; capo 2.]

Am   Am   Fsus9   Fsus9   Csus9
[intro]
    Gsus4/B   Csus9   G

Am   Am   Fsus9   Fsus9   Csus9
[intro]
    Gsus4/B   Csus9   Csus9


    Am           Am         Fsus9
The soldier came knocking upon 
           Fsus9
the queen's door
          Csus9    Gsus4/B      
He said, "I am not fighting for 
Csus9  G
you anymore"
        Am               Am       
And the queen knew she'd seen his 
    Fsus9        Fsus9
face someplace before
     Csus2     Gsus4/B   Csus9  
And slowly she let him inside
Csus9


          Am                Am    
He said, "I've watched your palace
    Fsus9         Fsus9
 up here on the hill
         Csus9              
And I've wondered who's the 
Gsus4/B   Csus9       G
woman for whom we all kill
         Am        Am             
But I am leaving tomorrow, and you
     Fsus9           Fsus9
 can do what you will
     Csus2      Gsus4/B   Csus9  
Only first I am asking you why"
Csus9


Fsus9      Fsus9       C/E       
  Down the long narrow hall he 
  C/E
was led
D7sus4   D7sus4        D7        
Into her room with her tapestries
 Dm7
 red
    Am        Am            Fsus9
And she never once took the crown
            Fsus9
 from her head
Csus9         Gsus4/B      Csus9 
She asked him there to sit down
 Csus9  Csus9  Csus9



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

Well the young queen, she fixed him 
with an arrogant eye
She said, "You won't understand, and
 you may as well not try"
But her face was a child's, and he 
thought she would cry
But she closed herself up like a fan

And she said, "I have swallowed a 
secret burning thread
It cuts me inside and often I've 
bled"
And he laid his hand then on the top
 of her head
Csus9         Gsus4/B      Csus9 
And he bowed her down to the 
 Csus9
ground


Fsus9   Fsus9   C/E     C/E     
["Oooooh" and instrumental]
D7sus4   D7sus4    D7      Dm7

Am      Am      Fsus9   Fsus9   
["Oooooh" and instrumental]
Csus9    Gsus4/B   Csus9   Csus9



"Tell me how hungry are you, how 
weak you must feel
As you are living here alone and you
 are never revealed
But I won't march again on your 
battlefield"
And he took her to the window to see

And the sun it was gold, though the 
sky it was grey
And she wanted more than she ever 
could say
But she knew how it frightened her 
and she turned away
And would not look at his face again

He said, "I want to live as an 
honest man
To get all I deserve and to give all
 I can
And to love a young woman whom I 
don't understand
Your highness, your ways are very 
strange"


But the crown, it had fallen, and 
she thought she would break
And she stood there ashamed of the 
way her heart ached
And she took him to the doorstep and
 she asked him to wait
She would only be a moment inside

Am         Am           Fsus2    
Out in the distance her order was
 Fsus2
 heard
        C5          Gsus4/B      
And the soldier was killed still 
C5              G
waiting for her word
              Am           
And while the queen went on 
 Am                Fsus9     
strangling in the solitude she 
      Fsus9
preferred
    C5    Gsus4/B    C5   Gsus4/B
The battle continued on


Fsus9   Fsus9   C/E     C/E     
["Oooooh" and instrumental]
D7sus4   D7sus4    D7      Dm7

Am      Am      Fsus9   Fsus9   
["Oooooh" and instrumental]
Csus9    Gsus4/B   Csus9   Csus9


Csus9   Csus9
[repeat and fade]


CHORDS/TAB:

   Here's how all the individual 
chords are played; string these 
together
to play the whole song.  The thumb 
plays all the notes on the 3 lowest
strings (and the first and fifth 
notes of each measure).
   (In the very last verse, most of 
the chords are played by plucking 
the
chord sharply at the beginning of 
the measure and repeating a bass 
note on
every eighth note of the measure; 
see "C5" below.  Toward the end of 
that
verse, it is still sharp chords and 
bass notes, but the rhythm is 
different.)


 Am:                              
|--0-------0-|--0-------0-|      |
|----1-------|----1-------|      |
|------2-----|2-----2-----|      |
|--------2---|--------2---|      |
|0-----------|------------|      |
|------------|------------|      |
  Fsus9:              Csus9:
||--3-------3-|      |--3-------3-| 
||----1-------|      |----1-------| 
||------0-----|      |------0-----| 
||3-------3---|      |--------0---| 
||------------|      |3-----------| 
||------------|      |------------| 


 Gsus4/B:            G:            
|--3-------3-|      |--3-------3-|
|----1-------|      |----0-------|
|------0-----|      |------0-----|
|--------0---|      |------------|
|2-----------|      |--------02--|
|------------|      |3-----------|
        C/E                 
||      |--3-------3-|      |3x----
||      |----1-------|      |1x----
||      |------0-----|      |0x----
||      |2-------2---|      |------
||      |------------|      |3-3-3-
||      |------------|      |------
  C5
||------| 
||------| 
||------| 
||------| 
||3-3-3-| 
||------| 


 D7sus4:                          
|--3-------3-|--3-------3-|      |
|----1-------|----1-------|      |
|------2-----|2-----2-----|      |
|0-------0---|--------0---|      |
|------------|------------|      |
|------------|------------|      |
  D7:                 Dm7:
||--2-------2-|      |--1-------0-| 
||----1-------|      |----1-------| 
||------2-----|      |------2-----| 
||0-------0---|      |0-------0---| 
||------------|      |------------| 
||------------|      |------------|