Pat Benatar - Too Long a Soldier

      

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 TOO LONG A SOLDIER - Pat Benatar

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 Transcribed by: Anne Drury
 Email: zerofret_ad@hotmail.com
 Date: October 1, 2005
 
 Written by: N.Geraldo, M.Grombacher
 CD: "Wide Awake In Dreamland" (1988, Chrysalis Records)
 
 INTRO:
 
 E F#m (2x) E F#m E E F#m
 
 E F#m E E F#m E E C#m 
         
 
 1ST VERSE:
 
              C#m           
 We were the children of '45
  C#m                                     
 Loaded like pistols and taught how to die
     B                 A                                C#m     
 We looked the enemy straight in the eye (And never surrendered)
           C#m                              
 Through trenches dug in the back of my mind
   C#m                            
 I go over the top time after time
 B                   A                                C#m   
 Me and the ones we left behind (Faces I'll always remember)
 
 CHORUS:
 
             E                      
 Now there's no fight left within me
          D      F#m      C#m 
 But the writing of this wrong
     C#m                           B             A 
 As nations we're divided, but as people we are one
       A                     E                B  
 Like brothers in blood, it seems that we've been
             C#m   
 Too long a soldier
 
 E B C#m 
    
 
 2ND VERSE:
 
         C#m             
 In the city of monuments
            C#m                    
 Among the flags of all governments
      B                  A                          C#m            
 The order of battle is written in the shadows of a hard black line
        C#m                           
 Where people cry for a nation's scars
      C#m                                   
 And heroes sleep beneath a blanket of stars
  B                     A                         C#m          
 Too young to die, but never too old to play the General's game
 
 CHORUS:
 
             E                       
 Now there's no life left within them
          D      F#m     C#m 
 But the memory lingers on
     C#m                           B             A 
 As nations we're divided, but as people we are one
      A                    E               B  
 For brothers in blood we sing that we've been
             C#m   
 Too long a soldier
 
 BRIDGE:
 
 A E 
   
 B                   E           
 Eternal flames blow in the wind,
  E             A      B     
 I've been too long a soldier
  B                         E       
 Captain of the Guard, I'm coming in
  E             A      B     
 Too long, too long a soldier
      F#m                 A       
 I've seen so much worth dying for
     F#m          A         C#m 
 So little worth killing over
 
 B C#m 
   Hey
 
 BREAK:
 
 C#m E B C#m (play progression 2x)
 F#m A A B 
     
 
 BRIDGE:
 
 B                   E           
 Eternal flames blow in the wind,
  E             A      B     
 I've been too long a soldier
  B                         E       
 Captain of the Guard, I'm coming in
  E             A      B     
 Too long, too long a soldier
      F#m                 A       
 I've seen so much worth dying for
     F#m          A          
 So little worth killing over
 
 B            E         
 Soldiers gone before me
 E       A            B 
 I will surely fade away
     B                                 E                    
 My eyes have seen the glory, and the suffering and the pain
  E             A      B     
 I've been too long a soldier
  E             A      B     
 Too long, too long a soldier
  E             A      B     
 I've been too long a soldier
 
 C#m E 
   
 
  B              C#m 
 (Too long a soldier)
  C#m     E                     
 Eternal flames blow in the wind
  B              C#m 
 (Too long a soldier)
    C#m                 E      
 My eyes have seen the glory of
  B              C#m 
 (Too long a soldier)
     C#m          E          B            C#m 
 Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
  C#m   E    B B C#m 
 Oooh, ooh, ooh
  C#m   E    B    B C#m 
 Oooh, ooh, ooh...
 
 B 
  
 C#m E B B C#m (fade on this progression)

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 (This file is the transcriber's own work and represents
 their interpretation of the song.)