Two Soldiers

Intro: D C G D C G D G D C G [Verso 1] D C He was just a blue-eyed Boston boy G His voice was low with pain D C I'll do your bidding comrade mine G If I ride back again D G But if you ride back and I am left D You do as much for me C Mother, you know, must hear the news G So write to her tenderly Interlude: D C G [Verso 2] D C She's waiting at home like a patient saint G Her fond face pale with woe D C Her heart will be broken when I am gone G I'll see her soon I know D G Just then the order came to charge D For an instant hand touched hand C They said "aye" and away they rode G That brave and devoted band Interlude: D C G D C G D G A D G C G [Verso 3] D C Straight was the track to the top of the hill G The rebels they shot and shelled D C Ploughed furoughs of death through the toiling ranks G And guarded them as they fell D G There soon came a horrible dying yell D From heights they could not gain C And those that doom and death had spared G Rode slowly down again Interlude: D C G [Verso 4] D C But among the dead that were left on the hill G Was the boy with the curly hair D C The tall dark man that rode by his side G Lay dead beside him there D G There's no one to write to the blue-eyed girl D The words her lover had said C Mom, you know, awaits the news G She'll only know he's dead Outro: D C G D Bm G C G D G D G C G