Soldier blue (sample)

G

1. I’ll tell you a story and it’s a true one,

D

and I’ll tell it like you understand,

G Em - D - G - D

and I ain’t gonna talk like some history ma…..n.

G C G

I look out and I see a land,

C G - C G# - Bb

young and lovely, hard and strong.

C# F# C# F#

For fifty thousand years we’ve danced her praises,

D D7 D D7

prayed our thanks and we’ve just begun. Yes, Yes.

G Bm Em - G

2. Yes, yes, this is my country,

C Em Am D

young and growing and free and flowing.

G Bm Em - G

Sea to sea, yes, this is my country,

C Em Am D G

ripe and bearing miracles in every pond and tree.

Bm Em - G

Her spirit walks the high country,

C Em

she’s giving free wild samples,

Am D G

and setting an example how to give.

Bm Em - G

4. Yes, this is my country,

C Em Am D Bb

retching and turning, she is like a baby learning how to live.

F

I can stand upon a hill at dawn,

C# G# C# G#

look all around me, feel her surround me.

B F#

Soldier blue, can’t you see, her life has just begun,

C# G# C D

beating inside us, telling us she’s here to guide us.

G Bm Em G

Soldier blue, soldier blue, soldier blue,

C Am D

can’t you see that there’s another way to love her.

G - Bm Em - G

4. This is my country,

C Em Am D

and I sprang from her, and I’m learning how to count upon her,

G Bm Em G

tall trees and the corn is my country,

C Em Am D

I guess I love her, and I’m learning how to take care of her.

Bb F

Whenever the news stories are getting’ me down.

C# G# C# G#

I take a drink of freedom to think of

B F#

North America from toe to crown,

C# G# C D

and it's never long before I know just why I belong here.

G Bm Em - G

Soldier blue, soldier blue,

C Am D

can't you see that there's another way to love her. (3x)

+ G

(oig. = capo 2nd) (Buffy Sainte-Marie)