Song Info
Song: Travelin Soldier
Written & Composed by: Dixie Chicks
Album: Single
Released Date: 15 Mar 2014
Chords Info
- Tuning: Standard(E A D G B E)
- Chords: G, C, Em, D
- Capo: 2nd Fret Capo
Transpose up
─♡─
Verse
G
Two days past eighteen
he was waiting for the bus in his army green
Sat
C
down at a booth in a cafe there,
G
gave his order to a girl with a bow in her hair
G
He’s a little shy so she gives him a smile
and he said would you mind sittin’ down for a while
and
C
talking to me, I’m feeling a little
G
low
She said I’m
F
off in an hour and
C
I know where we can
G
go
Pre-Chorus
G
So they went down and they sat on the pier
he said “I bet you got a boyfriend but I don’t care,
I’ve
C
got no one to send a letter
G
to.
Would you
F
mind if I sent
C
one back here to
G
you”
Chorus
Em
I
cried
C
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
G
Too young, for him they told her
D
Waitin’ for the love of a travelin soldier
Em
Our love will never end
C
Waitin’ for the soldier to come back again
G
Never more to be alone
D
When the letters said, a soldiers coming
G
home
Verse
So the
G
letters came from an army camp,
in California then Vietnam
And he
C
told her of his heart, might be love
and all
G
of thigns he was so scared of
G
He said when it’s getting kinda rough over here,
I think of that day sittin’ down at the pier
and I
C
close my eyes and see your pretty
G
smile
Don’t
F
worry but I won’t be
C
able to write for a
G
while
Chorus
Em
I
cried
C
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
G
Too young, for him they told her
D
Waitin’ for the love of a travelin soldier
Em
Our love will never end
C
Waitin’ for the soldier to come back again
G
Never more to be alone
D
When the letters said, a soldiers coming
G
home
Verse
One
G
Friday night at a football game,
the Lord’s Prayer said and the anthem sang
a
C
man said “Folks would you bow your head
for a
G
list of local Vietnam dead”
G
Cryin’ all alone under the stands
was a piccolo player in the marching band
And
C
one name read and nobody really
G
cared
But a
F
pretty little girl
C
with a bow in her
G
hair
Chorus
Em
I
cried
C
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
G
Too young, for him they told her
D
Waitin’ for the love of a travelin soldier
Em
Our love will never end
C
Waitin’ for the soldier to come back again
G
Never more to be alone
D
When the letters said, a soldiers coming
G
home
Chorus
Em
I
cried
C
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
G
Too young, for him they told her
D
Waitin’ for the love of a travelin soldier
Em
Our love will never end
C
Waitin’ for the soldier to come back again
G
Never more to be alone
D
When the letters said, a soldiers coming
G
home