Chords for The Queen and the Soldier - Michael Kelly - (Suzanne Vega cover)

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_ _ _ _ [Dm] A soldier came knocking [G] upon the Queen's [C] door
He said, I am not fighting for you anymore
And [D] the Queen knew she'd seen his face [F] someplace before
_ [C] And slowly she let him inside
_ _ _ He said, [Dm] I've watched your palace [Gm] up here on the hill
And I've wondered who's the woman whom we all kill
[Dm] But I'm leaving tomorrow, [C] you can do as you will
_ [F] Only first, [C] I am asking you why _ _
_ [G] _ Down along narrow [F]
hall he was led
[G] Into her room with its tapestries read
[Cm] [D] She never once took her [Bb] crown from her head
_ [C] She asked him there to sit down
_ _ He [D] said, I see you now and [Bb] you are so very young
But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won
[D] And I've got this intuition says it's [Bb] all for your fun
But [C] now will you tell me why?
_ _ _ Well [D] the young Queen, she fixed him [Gm] with an arrogant eye _
[C] Said, you won't understand and you may as well not try
But her face was a child's [Bb] and he thought she would cry
[C] And she closed herself up like a fan _ _ _
[Gm] Said, I [G] have swallowed a secret burning thread
It cuts me inside and often I've bled
[Cm] [D] He laid his [Dm] head on the [Bb] top of her head _
[F] And he bowed her down to the ground
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ Oh
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_ [D] Tell _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [D] me how hungry are you, [Gm] how weak you must feel
[F] Cause you are living here [C] alone and you are never revealed
But I [Dm] won't march again out [Bb] on your battlefield
_ [C] And he took her to the window to see _ _
When [D] the sun it was [Gm] golden though the sky was grey
_ [C] She wanted more than she ever could say
[Dm] But she knew how it frightened her [Bb] and she turned away
She [F] would not look at his face again _
_ He said, I want to live as an honest man
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Together I deserve and to give all I can
[Dm] And to love a young woman who I don't understand
_ Your highness, your ways are very strange
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_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] The _
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_ [Dm] crown it had fallen [G] and she thought she would break
And [C] she stood there ashamed of the way her heart ached
[Dm] And she took him to the doorstep and [Bb] she asked for him to wait
[F] She would only [C] be a moment [F] in sight
_ [C] _ _ _ [D] Out in the [G] distance her order was heard
[C] And the soldier was killed still waiting for her word
[Dm] While the queen kept on strangling [Bb] in the solitude she preferred
_ _ Battle _ _ continued on
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_ [D] the sun it was [Gm] golden though the sky was [G] grey
_ She wanted [C] more than she ever could say
But she [Dm] knew how it frightened her [Bb] and she turned away
She [C] would not look at his face again