45
The Queen and the Soldier - Suzanne Vega - 45 bpm
The
Am
soldier came
knocking u
F
pon the queen's
door
He said,
C
I am not
G
fighting for
C
you any
G
more
And the
Am
queen knew she'd
seen his face
F
someplace be
fore
And
C
slowly she
G
let him in
C
side
He said,
Am
I've watched your
palace up
F
here on the
hill
And I've
C
wondered who's the
G
woman for
C
whom we all
G
kill
But I am
Am
leaving to
morrow, and you can
F
do what you
will
Only
C
first I am
G
asking you
C
why
F
Down the
long narrow
C
hall he was
led
D7sus4
Into her
room with her
D7
tapestries
Dm
red
And
Am
she never
once took the
F
crown from her
head
C
She asked him
G
there to sit
C
down
He said,
Am
I see you
now and you
F
are so very
young
But I've
C
seen more battles
G
lost than I
C
have battles
G
won
And I've
Am
got this intu
ition says it's
F
all for your
fun
And
C
now will
G
you tell me
C
why?
Well the
Am
young queen, she
fixed him with an
F
arrogant
eye
She said, You
C
won't under
G
stand, and you
C
may as well not
G
try
But her
Am
face was a
child's, and he
F
thought she would
cry
But she
C
closed herself
G
up like a
C
fan
And she said,
F
I have
swallowed a
C
secret burning
thread
It
D7sus4
cuts me in
side and
D7
often I've
Dm
bled
And
Am
he laid his
hand then on the
F
top of her
head
And
C
he bowed her
G
down to the
C
ground
Tell me
Am
how hungry
are you, how
F
weak you must
feel
As you are
C
living here a
G
lone and you are
C
never revealed
G
But I
Am
won't march a
gain on
F
your battle
field
And he
C
took her to the
G
window to
C
see
And the
Am
sun it was
gold, though the
F
sky it was
grey
And
C
she wanted
G
more than she
C
ever could
G
say
But
Am
she knew how it
frightened her and
F
she turned
away
And
C
would not look at
G
his face a
C
gain
He said,
F
I want to
live as
C
an honest
man
To get
D7sus4
all I des
erve and to give
D7
all I
Dm
can
And to
Am
love a young
woman whom I
F
don't under
stand
Your
C
highness, your
G
ways are
C
very strange
But the
Am
crown, it had
fallen, and she
F
thought she would
break
And she
C
stood there a
G
shamed of the
C
way her heart
G
ached
And she
Am
took him to the
doorstep and she
F
asked him to
wait
She would
C
only be a
G
moment in
C
side
Am
Out in the
distance her
F
order was
heard
And the
C
soldier was
G
killed still
C
waiting for her
G
word
And while the
Am
queen went on
strangling in the
F
solitude she pre
ferred
The
C
battle,
G
.. continued
C
on .. ..