Suzanne Vega

Queen & The Soldier

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THE QUEEN AND THE SOLDIER (Suzanne Vega)

[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:

Gsus4/B: G: C/E C5

D7sus4: D7: Dm7: