From: rickl1@ix.netcom.com (Rick) Subject: CRD:Two Soldiers Julie Miller with Emmylou Harris Chords/Lyrics Date: 23 Aug 1999 00:00:00 GMT Julie Miller Two Soldiers arranged by Julie & Buddy Miller trad. Julie Miller vocals/acoustic guitar Emmylou Harris vocals Buddy Miller guitar Brady Blades drums Joey Spampinato bass Phil Madeira accordion Ed Forte hurdy gurdy Steve Hindalong percussion C F C C G F He was just a blue-eyed Boston boy C His voice was low with pain G F I'll do your bidding comrade mine C If I ride back again G C But if you ride back and I am left G You'll do as much for me C F Mother you know must hear the news C G C F C So write to her tenderly G F She's waiting at home like a patient saint C Her fond face pale with woe G F Her heart will be broken when I am gone C I'll see her soon I know G C Just then the order came to charge G For an instance hand touched hand G F They said aye and away they rode C G C F C G C F C That brave and devoted band G F Straight was the track to the top of the hill C The rebels they shot and shelled G C Plowed furrows of death F Through the toiling ranks C And guarded them as they fell G C There soon came a horrible dying yell G From heights that they could not gain C F And those who doom and death had spared C G C F C G C F C Rode slowly back again G F But among the dead that were left on the hill C Was the boy with the curly hair G F The tall dark man who rode by his side C Lay dead beside him there G C There's no one to write to the blue-eyed girl G The words that her lover had said C F Momma you know awaits the news F C And she'll only know he's dead From Julie Miller "Broken Things" Hightone Records 1999