----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOO LONG A SOLDIER - Pat Benatar ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Transcribed by: Anne Drury Email: zerofret_ad@hotmail.com Date: October 1, 2005 Written by: N.Geraldo, M.Grombacher CD: "Wide Awake In Dreamland" (1988, Chrysalis Records) INTRO: E F#m (2x) E F#m E E F#m E F#m E E F#m E E C#m 1ST VERSE: C#m We were the children of '45 C#m Loaded like pistols and taught how to die B A C#m We looked the enemy straight in the eye (And never surrendered) C#m Through trenches dug in the back of my mind C#m I go over the top time after time B A C#m Me and the ones we left behind (Faces I'll always remember) CHORUS: E Now there's no fight left within me D F#m C#m But the writing of this wrong C#m B A As nations we're divided, but as people we are one A E B Like brothers in blood, it seems that we've been C#m Too long a soldier E B C#m 2ND VERSE: C#m In the city of monuments C#m Among the flags of all governments B A C#m The order of battle is written in the shadows of a hard black line C#m Where people cry for a nation's scars C#m And heroes sleep beneath a blanket of stars B A C#m Too young to die, but never too old to play the General's game CHORUS: E Now there's no life left within them D F#m C#m But the memory lingers on C#m B A As nations we're divided, but as people we are one A E B For brothers in blood we sing that we've been C#m Too long a soldier BRIDGE: A E B E Eternal flames blow in the wind, E A B I've been too long a soldier B E Captain of the Guard, I'm coming in E A B Too long, too long a soldier F#m A I've seen so much worth dying for F#m A C#m So little worth killing over B C#m Hey BREAK: C#m E B C#m (play progression 2x) F#m A A B BRIDGE: B E Eternal flames blow in the wind, E A B I've been too long a soldier B E Captain of the Guard, I'm coming in E A B Too long, too long a soldier F#m A I've seen so much worth dying for F#m A So little worth killing over B E Soldiers gone before me E A B I will surely fade away B E My eyes have seen the glory, and the suffering and the pain E A B I've been too long a soldier E A B Too long, too long a soldier E A B I've been too long a soldier C#m E B C#m (Too long a soldier) C#m E Eternal flames blow in the wind B C#m (Too long a soldier) C#m E My eyes have seen the glory of B C#m (Too long a soldier) C#m E B C#m Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light C#m E B B C#m Oooh, ooh, ooh C#m E B B C#m Oooh, ooh, ooh... B C#m E B B C#m (fade on this progression) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- (This file is the transcriber's own work and represents their interpretation of the song.)