The Queen And The Soldier Chords by Suzanne Vega

_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ The [B] soldier came knocking [Bm]
upon the Queen's door.
[A] He said,
I am fighting for you [A] anymore.
[B] And the Queen knew she'd seen his [Bm] face someplace before,
[A] and slowly she let him inside.
_ _ [B] He said, I've watched your [G] palace up here on the hill,
and [D] I've wondered [A] who's the woman [D] for whom [A] we all kill,
[B] but I am leaving tomorrow [G] and you can do what you will.
_ [D] Only first I [C#m] am asking you why.
_ _ [G] _ _
Down the long narrow [D] hall he was led,
[E] into her room with her tapestries read,
[Bm] and she'd never once picked [G] the crown from her head.
_ [D] She asked [A] him there to sit [D] down.
He _ _ _ _ _ [B] said, I see you now and you [G] are so very young,
but [D] I've seen more [C#m] battles lost than I have [A] battles won,
and [B] I've got this intuition [G] says it's all for your fun.
[D] And now will [C#m] you tell [D] me why? _ _
[B] Well the young Queen she [Bm] fixed him [G] with an arrogant eye.
She said, [D] you won't [A] understand [D] and you may as well not try.
[Bm] But her face was a child and [G] he thought she would cry,
[D] but she closed [A] herself up [D] like a fan.
_ And [G] she said, I've swallowed [F#m] a secret burning thread,
[E] it cuts me _ inside and often I bled.
[Bm] And he laid his hand down on [G] the top of her head,
[D] and he bowed her [C#m]
down to the ground.
_ And [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [C#m] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[B] tell me how hungry [Bm] are [G] you, how weak you must feel,
as [D] you are living [A] here alone and you are never revealed.
[B] But I won't march again [G] on your battlefield.
[D] And he took her to the window to see.
_ _ [B] And the sun, it was gold, [G] although the sky was gray,
[D] and she [C#m] wanted more than [D] she ever [A] could say.
[B] But she knew how it frightened her [G] and she turned away
[D] and would not look [A] at his face [D] again.
_ And [G] he said, I want to live [D] as an honest [E] man,
to get all I deserve and to give all I can,
[Bm] and to love a young woman who [G] I don't understand.
_ [D] Your Highness, [A] your ways [D] are very strange.
_ But _ _ _ [B] the crown, it had fallen [G] and she thought she would break.
[D] And she stood there, ashamed of the way her [A] heart ached.
[Bm] And she took him to the [G] doorstep and she asked him to wait.
She [D] would only be a moment _ inside. _ _
_ [Bm] Out in the distance her order [G] was heard,
[D] and the soldier [A] was killed, [D] still waiting for her word.
And [Bm] while the queen went on [G] strangling in the solitude,
she performed [D] the battle, _ [A] _ _ [D]
continued _ on.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [C#m] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
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