Decemberists - Soldiering Life

verse 1

D C#
ambling madly all over the town
D
the arbor wall you likened to a whisper
C#
i likened to a radio .
D C#
you were a brickbat , a bowery tough ,
D
so rough they culled you from a cartoon .
C#
pulled out of your pantaloons .

chorus

A G#
but you , my brother in arms ,
F#m E
i’d rather i’d lose my limbs than let you come to harm .
A G#
but you , my bombazine doll
F#m E
the bullets may singe your skin and the mortars may fall .
A E
but i have never felt so much light
F#m D
than tonight , huddled in the trenches ,
A
gazing on the battlefield .
E
our rifles blaze away .
G D
we blaze away . oh oh oh

verse 2

D C#
corporal bradley of regiment five
D
in proud array , standing by the bathing
C#
soldiers and the stevedores .
D C#
we laid on the mattress and tumbled to sleep
D
our eyes aligned , swaddled in our civies
C#
cradled in our dungarees .

chorus

A G#
but you , my brother in arms ,
F#m E
i’d rather i’d lose my limbs than let you come to harm .
A G#
but you , my bombazine doll
F#m E
the bullets may singe your skin and the mortars may fall .
A E
but i have never felt so much light
F#m D
than tonight , huddled in the trenches ,
A
gazing on the battlefield .
E
our rifles blaze away .
G D
we blaze away . oh oh oh

outro

G D
we blaze away . oh oh oh
A E
we blaze away . oh oh oh oh
G D
we blaze away . oh oh oh