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QUEEN & THE SOLDIER Suzanne Vega
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THE QUEEN AND THE SOLDIER (Suzanne Vega)
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[Actually in D; capo 2.]
[Am] [intr[Am]o] [Fsus9] [Fsus9] [Csus9] [Gsus4/B] [Csus9] [G]
[Am] [intr[Am]o] [Fsus9] [Fsus9] [Csus9] [Gsus4/B] [Csus9] [Csus9]
The [Am]soldier came [Am]knocking up[Fsus9]on the queen's d[Fsus9]oor
He said, "[Csus9]I am not [Gsus4/B]fighting for [Csus9]you any[G]more"
And the [Am]queen knew she'd [Am]seen his face[Fsus9] someplace be[Fsus9]fore
And s[Csus2]lowly she [Gsus4/B]let him in[Csus9]side[Csus9]
He said, "[Am]I've watched your [Am]palace up [Fsus9]here on the hi[Fsus9]ll
And I've [Csus9]wondered who's the [Gsus4/B]woman for [Csus9]whom we all [G]kill
But I am [Am]leaving to[Am]morrow, and you can [Fsus9]do what you will[Fsus9]
Only [Csus2]first I am [Gsus4/B]asking you[Csus9] why"[Csus9]
[Fsus9] Down the [Fsus9]long narrow [C/E]hall he was [C/E]led
[D7sus4]Into her [D7sus4]room with her [D7]tapestries [Dm7]red
And [Am]she never [Am]once took the [Fsus9]crown from her he[Fsus9]ad
[Csus9]She asked him [Gsus4/B]there to sit [Csus9]down[Csus9] [Csus9] [Csus9]
He said, "I see you now and you are so very young
But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won
And I've got this intuition says it's all for your fun
And now will you tell me why?"
Well the young queen, she fixed him with an arrogant eye
She said, "You won't understand, and you may as well not try"
But her face was a child's, and he thought she would cry
But she closed herself up like a fan
And she said, "I have swallowed a secret burning thread
It cuts me inside and often I've bled"
And he laid his hand then on the top of her head
[Csus9]And he bowed h[Gsus4/B]er down to th[Csus9]e groun[Csus9]d
[Fsus9] ["Oooooh[Fsus9]" and in[C/E]strument[C/E]al] [D7sus4] [D7sus4] [D7] [Dm7]
[Am] ["Oooooh[Am]" and in[Fsus9]strument[Fsus9]al] [Csus9] [Gsus4/B] [Csus9] [Csus9]
"Tell me how hungry are you, how weak you must feel
As you are living here alone and you are never revealed
But I won't march again on your battlefield"
And he took her to the window to see
And the sun it was gold, though the sky it was grey
And she wanted more than she ever could say
But she knew how it frightened her and she turned away
And would not look at his face again
He said, "I want to live as an honest man
To get all I deserve and to give all I can
And to love a young woman whom I don't understand
Your highness, your ways are very strange"
But the crown, it had fallen, and she thought she would break
And she stood there ashamed of the way her heart ached
And she took him to the doorstep and she asked him to wait
She would only be a moment inside
[Am]Out in the [Am]distance her [Fsus2]order was [Fsus2]heard
And the [C5]soldier was [Gsus4/B]killed still [C5]waiting for her [G]word
And while the [Am]queen went on [Am]strangling in the [Fsus9]solitude she pre[Fsus9]ferred
The [C5]battle[Gsus4/B] continued [C5]on[Gsus4/B]
[Fsus9] ["Oooooh[Fsus9]" and in[C/E]strument[C/E]al] [D7sus4] [D7sus4] [D7] [Dm7]
[Am] ["Oooooh[Am]" and in[Fsus9]strument[Fsus9]al] [Csus9] [Gsus4/B] [Csus9] [Csus9]
[Csus9] [repeat [Csus9]and fade]
CHORDS/TAB:
Here's how all the individual chords are played; string these together
to play the whole song. The thumb plays all the notes on the 3 lowest
strings (and the first and fifth notes of each measure).
(In the very last verse, most of the chords are played by plucking the
chord sharply at the beginning of the measure and repeating a bass note on
every eighth note of the measure; see "C5" below. Toward the end of that
verse, it is still sharp chords and bass notes, but the rhythm is different.)
Am: Fsus9: Csus9:
|--0-------0-|--0-------0-| |--3-------3-| |--3-------3-| |----1-------|----1-------| |----1-------| |----1-------| |------2-----|2-----2-----| |------0-----| |------0-----| |--------2---|--------2---| |3-------3---| |--------0---| |0-----------|------------| |------------| |3-----------| |------------|------------| |------------| |------------|
Gsus4/B: G: C/E C5
|--3-------3-| |--3-------3-| |--3-------3-| |3x----------| |----1-------| |----0-------| |----1-------| |1x----------| |------0-----| |------0-----| |------0-----| |0x----------| |--------0---| |------------| |2-------2---| |------------| |2-----------| |--------02--| |------------| |3-3-3-3-3-3-| |------------| |3-----------| |------------| |------------|
D7sus4: D7: Dm7:
|--3-------3-|--3-------3-| |--2-------2-| |--1-------0-| |----1-------|----1-------| |----1-------| |----1-------| |------2-----|2-----2-----| |------2-----| |------2-----| |0-------0---|--------0---| |0-------0---| |0-------0---| |------------|------------| |------------| |------------| |------------|------------| |------------| |------------|
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