{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1935513,"song":"Two Soldiers","artist":"Ricky Skaggs","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11432850-two-soldiers-chords-by-ricky-skaggs/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1935513?type=chord","rating":4.8581,"votes":10,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]D[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe was just a blue-eyed Boston boy[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]G[/ch]        \r\nHis voice was low with pain.[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]   \r\n\"I'll do your bidding comrade mine,[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIf I ride back again.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut if you ride back and I am left[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou'll do as much for me.[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMother you know, must hear the news[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSo write to her tenderly.\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\"She's waiting at home like a patient saint[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]G[/ch]         \r\nHer fond face pale with woe.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHer heart will be broken when I am gone[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]G[/ch]       \r\nI'll see her soon, I know\"[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nJust then the order came to charge[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                    \r\nFor an instant hand touched hand[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThey said \"Aye\" and away they rode[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]G[/ch]     \r\nThat brave and devoted band.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]D[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3] \r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]          \r\nStraight was the track to the top of the hill[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]        \r\nThe rebels they shot and shelled.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                   [ch]C[/ch]  \r\nPlowed furrows of death through the toilling ranks[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]       \r\nAnd guarded them as they fell[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThere soon came a horrible dying yell[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                           \r\nFrom heights that they could not gain[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd those that doom and death had spared[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]G[/ch]      \r\nRode slowly back again.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]D[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nBut among the dead that were left on the hill[/tab]\r\n[tab]                           [ch]G[/ch]     \r\nWas the boy with the curly hair[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThe tall dark man that rode by his side[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLay dead beside him there[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThere's no one to write to the blue-eyed girl[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe words that her lover had said[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nMomma, you know, awaits the news[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd she'll only know he's dead.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch] [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nD C G C G D G C G\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nD G C G\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nD C G D C G D G D G C G C G\n\n[Verse 3] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nD C G\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nD G C G D G C G D G C G C G","chords":["D","C","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}