Queen And The Soldier

THE QUEEN AND THE SOLDIER (Suzanne Vega) ---------------------------------------- [Actually in D; capo 2.] Am Am Fsus9 Fsus9 Csus9 Gsus4/B Csus9 G [intro] Am Am Fsus9 Fsus9 Csus9 Gsus4/B Csus9 Csus9 [intro] Am Am Fsus9 Fsus9 The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door Csus9 Gsus4/B Csus9 G He said, "I am not fighting for you anymore" Am Am Fsus9 Fsus9 And the queen knew she'd seen his face someplace before Csus2 Gsus4/B Csus9 Csus9 And slowly she let him inside Am Am Fsus9 Fsus9 He said, "I've watched your palace up here on the hill Csus9 Gsus4/B Csus9 G And I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill Am Am Fsus9 Fsus9 But I am leaving tomorrow, and you can do what you will Csus2 Gsus4/B Csus9 Csus9 Only first I am asking you why" Fsus9 Fsus9 C/E C/E Down the long narrow hall he was led D7sus4 D7sus4 D7 Dm7 Into her room with her tapestries red Am Am Fsus9 Fsus9 And she never once took the crown from her head Csus9 Gsus4/B Csus9 Csus9 Csus9 Csus9 She asked him there to sit down He said, "I see you now and you are so very young But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won And I've got this intuition says it's all for your fun And now will you tell me why?" Well the young queen, she fixed him with an arrogant eye She said, "You won't understand, and you may as well not try" But her face was a child's, and he thought she would cry But she closed herself up like a fan And she said, "I have swallowed a secret burning thread It cuts me inside and often I've bled" And he laid his hand then on the top of her head Csus9 Gsus4/B Csus9 Csus9 And he bowed her down to the ground Fsus9 Fsus9 C/E C/E D7sus4 D7sus4 D7 Dm7 ["Oooooh" and instrumental] Am Am Fsus9 Fsus9 Csus9 Gsus4/B Csus9 Csus9 ["Oooooh" and instrumental] "Tell me how hungry are you, how weak you must feel As you are living here alone and you are never revealed But I won't march again on your battlefield" And he took her to the window to see And the sun it was gold, though the sky it was grey And she wanted more than she ever could say But she knew how it frightened her and she turned away And would not look at his face again He said, "I want to live as an honest man To get all I deserve and to give all I can And to love a young woman whom I don't understand Your highness, your ways are very strange" But the crown, it had fallen, and she thought she would break And she stood there ashamed of the way her heart ached And she took him to the doorstep and she asked him to wait She would only be a moment inside Am Am Fsus2 Fsus2 Out in the distance her order was heard C5 Gsus4/B C5 G And the soldier was killed still waiting for her word Am Am Fsus9 Fsus9 And while the queen went on strangling in the solitude she preferred C5 Gsus4/B C5 Gsus4/B The battle continued on Fsus9 Fsus9 C/E C/E D7sus4 D7sus4 D7 Dm7 ["Oooooh" and instrumental] Am Am Fsus9 Fsus9 Csus9 Gsus4/B Csus9 Csus9 ["Oooooh" and instrumental] Csus9 Csus9 [repeat and fade] CHORDS/TAB: Here's how all the individual chords are played; string these together to play the whole song. The thumb plays all the notes on the 3 lowest strings (and the first and fifth notes of each measure). (In the very last verse, most of the chords are played by plucking the chord sharply at the beginning of the measure and repeating a bass note on every eighth note of the measure; see "C5" below. Toward the end of that verse, it is still sharp chords and bass notes, but the rhythm is different.) Am: Fsus9: Csus9: |--0-------0-|--0-------0-| |--3-------3-| |--3-------3-| |----1-------|----1-------| |----1-------| |----1-------| |------2-----|2-----2-----| |------0-----| |------0-----| |--------2---|--------2---| |3-------3---| |--------0---| |0-----------|------------| |------------| |3-----------| |------------|------------| |------------| |------------| Gsus4/B: G: C/E C5 |--3-------3-| |--3-------3-| |--3-------3-| |3x----------| |----1-------| |----0-------| |----1-------| |1x----------| |------0-----| |------0-----| |------0-----| |0x----------| |--------0---| |------------| |2-------2---| |------------| |2-----------| |--------02--| |------------| |3-3-3-3-3-3-| |------------| |3-----------| |------------| |------------| D7sus4: D7: Dm7: |--3-------3-|--3-------3-| |--2-------2-| |--1-------0-| |----1-------|----1-------| |----1-------| |----1-------| |------2-----|2-----2-----| |------2-----| |------2-----| |0-------0---|--------0---| |0-------0---| |0-------0---| |------------|------------| |------------| |------------| |------------|------------| |------------| |------------|