Flatt & Scruggs - Soldier's Return guitar chord

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1)All the pretty girls standing in the garden, a brown shoe

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soldier came walking by. He stepped up to her thinking just

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to tease her. Said I think that you will be my bride.

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2)I have a sweetheart he is in the Army , across the sea, in

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some distant land. I'd never send him a dear john letter,

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just for the sake of some fast talking man.

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3) supposing that he's not lost in some battle, not even

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out, in the ice and snow. But in the arms of some foreign

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beauty, did you ever think, it might be so.

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4) I know that he is lost in some battle, though I know not

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if, he be alive or dead. I have this glove that I once knit

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for him...see how it's stained, with his life's own blood.

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5) He reached his hand, down inside his pocket...lean close

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and see the gift I bear. That very glove that you are

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holding. It is the same as I have here.

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6) I know that you do not recognize me, my face is changed

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by some battle scars, but my heart inside , it is just

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the same love...as when I left, to join the war.

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7) Now wars may come and take away your loved ones. It may

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seem easy to deceive. But if you truely love some

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soldier....than you must set, his mind at ease.