{"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":2112687,"song":"Soldiers Return","artist":"Flatt & Scruggs","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11458819-soldiers-return-chords-by-flatt-scruggs/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2112687?type=chord","rating":0.10135,"votes":0,"content":"[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAll the pretty girls standing in the garden, a brown shoe[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]D7[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]  \r\nsoldier came walking by. He stepped up to her thinking just[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]D7[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nto tease her. Said I think that you will be my bride.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI have a sweetheart he is in the Army , across the sea, in[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]D7[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nsome distant land. I'd never send him a dear john letter,[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]D7[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\njust for the sake of some fast talking man.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nsupposing that he's not lost in some battle, not even[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]D7[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nout, in the ice and snow. But in the arms of some foreign[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D7[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]\r\nbeauty, did you ever think, it might be so.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI know that he is lost in some battle, though I know not[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]D7[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nif, he be alive or dead. I have this glove that I once knit[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]D7[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nfor him...see how it's stained, with his life's own blood.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe reached his hand, down inside his pocket...lean close [/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]D7[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]  \r\nand see the gift I bear. That very glove that you are [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]D7[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nholding. It is the same as I have here.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI know that you do not recognize me, my face is changed [/tab]\r\n[tab]                [ch]D7[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nby some battle scars, but my heart inside , it is just[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]    [ch]D7[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nthe same love...as when I left, to join the war.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nNow wars may come and take away your loved ones. It may[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]D7[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch] \r\nseem easy to deceive. But if you truely love some [/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D7[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nsoldier....than you must set, his mind at ease. [/tab]","plain_text":"","chords":["G","C","D7"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,1,3],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,1,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}