Chords for Southern Soldier

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_ _ _ _ _ I'll place my knapsack on my [G] back, my rifle on my shoulder, [D] I'll march away to the firing
line and kill that [G] Yankee soldier.
[Bm] I'll kill that [D] Yankee soldier.
I'll march [Bm] away to the
firing [D] line and kill that Yankee soldier. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I'll bid farewell to my wife and [G] child, farewell
to my aged [D] mother.
I'll go and join in the bloody strife till this crew [Em] war is [Bm] over,
till this [D] crew war is over.
I'll go and [Bm] join in the bloody [D] strife till this crew war is
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If I am shot on the [G] battlefield, then I should not [D] recover.
Oh, who will protect
my wife and child?
Who'll care for my aged [A]
[G] mother?
[Bm] Who'll care for my [D] aged mother?
Oh,
who will protect my wife and child and care for my aged mother? _ _
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And if our Southern cause
[G] is lost and Southern rights [D] denied us, we'll be ground beneath the tyrant's heel for our
demands [G] of justice, for [D] our demands of justice.
We'll be ground [Bm] beneath the tyrant's heel
[D] for our demands of justice. _ _
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Before the South shall bow [G] her head, before the tyrants harm
[D] us, I'll give my all to the Southern cause and die in the Southern [Em]
[Bm] Army.
I'll die [D] in
the Southern Army.
I'll give my all to the Southern cause and I'll die in the Southern
Army. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ If I must die for my home and [G] land, my spirit will not falter.
[D] Here's my heart
and here's my hand upon my [G] country's [Bm] altar, upon my [D] country's altar.
Here's my heart
[Bm] and here's my [D] hand upon my country's altar. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ And heaven be with us in the strife, [G] be with
the Southern soldier.
[D] We'll drive that mercenary horde beyond our [G] Southern [Bm] border, beyond our
[D] Southern border.
We'll drive that mercenary horde beyond our Southern border. _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ So I'll
place my knapsack on my back, my rifle on my shoulder.
I'll march away to the firing
line and kill that Yankee soldier.
I'll kill that Yankee soldier.
I'll march away to the
firing _ [C#] line [D] and I'll kill that Yankee soldier.
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