Suzanne Vega – Queen And The Soldier chords

Capo at 2.


    Am           Am          Fsus9         Fsus9The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door
          Csus9    Gsus4/B      Csus9  GHe said, "I am not fighting for you anymore"
        Am               Am            Fsus9         Fsus9And the queen knew she'd seen his face    someplace before
     Csus9     Gsus4/B   Csus9  Csus9And slowly she let him inside

          Am                Am         Fsus9         Fsus9He said, "I've watched your palace up here on the hill
         Csus9              Gsus4/B   Csus9       GAnd I've wondered who's the woman for whom we all kill
         Am        Am                   Fsus9         Fsus9But I am leaving tomorrow, and you can do what you will
      Csus9     Gsus4/B   Csus9  Csus9Only first I am asking you why"

  F9      F9      C9              C9Down the long narrow hall he was led
D7sus4   D7sus4        D7         DmInto her room with her tapestries red
    Am        Am              F9            F9And she never once took the crown from her head
      Csus9     Gsus4/B   Csus9  Csus9She asked him there to sit down

             Am      Am             F9        F9He said, "I see you now and you are so very young
          Cadd9             G        Cadd9           GBut I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won
         Am           Am               F9           F9And I've got this intuition says it's all for your fun
    Csus9     Gsus4/B   Csus9  Csus9And now will you tell me why?"

          Am               Am                  F9         F9Well the young queen, she fixed him with an arrogant eye
                Cadd9         G           Cadd9           GShe said, "You won't understand, and you may as well not try"
         Am           Am            F9                F9But her face was a child's, and he thought she would cry
         Csus9     Gsus4/B   Csus9  Csus9But she closed herself up like a fan

        F9             F9          C9              C9And she said, "I have swallowed a secret burning thread
   D7sus4     D7sus4   D7         DmIt cuts me inside and often I've bled"
        Am            Am          F9         F9And he laid his hand then on the top of her head
     Csus9     Gsus4/B   Csus9  Csus9And he bowed her down to the ground


Fsus9   Fsus9   C/E     C/E     D7sus4   D7sus4    D7      Dm7["Oooooh" and instrumental]
Am      Am      Fsus9   Fsus9   Csus9    Gsus4/B   Csus9   Csus9["Oooooh" and instrumental]

         Am              Am       F9            F9"Tell me how hungry are you, how weak you must feel
           Csus9              Gsus4/B   Csus9       GAs you are living here alone and you are never revealed
      Am            Am       F9         F9But I won't march again on your battlefield"
        Csus9     Gsus4/B   Csus9  Csus9And he took her to the window to see

         Am         Am              F9          F9And the sun it was gold, though the sky it was grey
    Csus9              Gsus4/B   Csus9       GAnd she wanted more than she ever could say
        Am          Am                 F9           F9But she knew how it frightened her and she turned away
          Csus9     Gsus4/B   Csus9  Csus9And would not look at his face again

          F9        F9      C9        C9He said, "I want to live as an honest man
   D7sus4       D7sus4       D7         DmTo get all I deserve and to give all I can
        Am           An          F9           F9And to love a young woman whom I don't understand
      Csus9     Gsus4/B   Csus9  Csus9Your highness, your ways are very strange"

          Am             Am             F9                F9But the crown, it had fallen, and she thought she would break
         Csus9              Gsus4/B   Csus9       GAnd she stood there ashamed of the way her heart ached
         Am              Am                F9          F9And she took him to the doorstep and she asked him to wait
           Csus9     Gsus4/B   Csus9  Csus9She would only be a moment inside

Am         Am           Fsus2     Fsus2Out in the distance her order was heard
        Csus9          Gsus4/B      Csus9              GAnd the soldier was killed still waiting for her word
              Am            Am                Fsus9           Fsus9And while the queen went on strangling in the solitude she preferred
    Csus9     Gsus4/B   Csus9  Csus9The battle continued on


Fsus9   Fsus9   C/E     C/E     D7sus4   D7sus4    D7      Dm7["Oooooh" and instrumental]
Am      Am      Fsus9   Fsus9   Csus9    Gsus4/B   Csus9   Csus9["Oooooh" and instrumental]

Csus9   Csus9
[repeat and fade]

 
 

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