Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

1ST VERSE:

We were the children of '45

Loaded like pistols and taught how to die

We looked the enemy straight in the eye (And never surrendered)

Through trenches dug in the back of my mind

I go over the top time after time

Me and the ones we left behind (Faces I'll always remember)

Chorus

Now there's no fight left within me

But the writing of this wrong

As nations we're divided, but as people we are one

Like brothers in blood, it seems that we've been

Too long a soldier

2ND VERSE:

In the city of monuments

Among the flags of all governments

The order of battle is written in the shadows of a hard black line

Where people cry for a nation's scars

And heroes sleep beneath a blanket of stars

Too young to die, but never too old to play the General's game

Chorus

Now there's no life left within them

But the memory lingers on

As nations we're divided, but as people we are one

For brothers in blood we sing that we've been

Too long a soldier

Bridge

Eternal flames blow in the wind,

I've been too long a soldier

Captain of the Guard, I'm coming in

Too long, too long a soldier

I've seen so much worth dying for

So little worth killing over

Hey

Break

Bridge

Eternal flames blow in the wind,

I've been too long a soldier

Captain of the Guard, I'm coming in

Too long, too long a soldier

I've seen so much worth dying for

So little worth killing over

Soldiers gone before me

I will surely fade away

My eyes have seen the glory, and the suffering and the pain

I've been too long a soldier

Too long, too long a soldier

I've been too long a soldier

(Too long a soldier)

Eternal flames blow in the wind

(Too long a soldier)

My eyes have seen the glory of

(Too long a soldier)

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light

Oooh, ooh, ooh

Oooh, ooh, ooh...

(This file is the transcriber's own work and represents

their interpretation of the song.)