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Too Long A Soldier

Biography:

Pat Benatar is a four-time Grammy winning musician with six platinum and four gold albums to her credit. Singing such hit singles as "I Need a Lover", "Heartbreaker", "Fire and Ice", "Treat Me Right", "Hit Me with Your Best Shot", "Hell Is for Children", "Shadows of the Night", and "Love Is a Battlefield", Benatar is acknowledged as one of the leading female rock vocalists in the industry.

She was born in the neighborhood of Greenpoint in Brooklyn, New York City, New York on January 10, 1953 as Patricia Andrzejewski.

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TOO LONG A SOLDIER - Pat Benatar
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Transcribed by: Anne Drury
Email: [email protected]
Date: October 1, 2005

Written by: N.Geraldo, M.Grombacher
CD: "Wide Awake In Dreamland" (1988, Chrysalis Records)

INTRO:

E F#m (2x) E F#m E E F#m

E F#m E E F#m E E C#m

1ST VERSE:

C#m
We were the children of '45
C#m
Loaded like pistols and taught how to die
B A C#m
We looked the enemy straight in the eye (And never surrendered)
C#m
Through trenches dug in the back of my mind
C#m
I go over the top time after time
B A C#m
Me and the ones we left behind (Faces I'll always remember)

CHORUS:

E
Now there's no fight left within me
D F#m C#m
But the writing of this wrong
C#m B A
As nations we're divided, but as people we are one
A E B
Like brothers in blood, it seems that we've been
C#m
Too long a soldier

E B C#m

2ND VERSE:

C#m
In the city of monuments
C#m
Among the flags of all governments
B A C#m
The order of battle is written in the shadows of a hard black line
C#m
Where people cry for a nation's scars
C#m
And heroes sleep beneath a blanket of stars
B A C#m
Too young to die, but never too old to play the General's game

CHORUS:

E
Now there's no life left within them
D F#m C#m
But the memory lingers on
C#m B A
As nations we're divided, but as people we are one
A E B
For brothers in blood we sing that we've been
C#m
Too long a soldier

BRIDGE:

A E

B E
Eternal flames blow in the wind,
E A B
I've been too long a soldier
B E
Captain of the Guard, I'm coming in
E A B
Too long, too long a soldier
F#m A
I've seen so much worth dying for
F#m A C#m
So little worth killing over

B C#m
Hey

BREAK:

C#m E B C#m (play progression 2x)
F#m A A B

BRIDGE:

B E
Eternal flames blow in the wind,
E A B
I've been too long a soldier
B E
Captain of the Guard, I'm coming in
E A B
Too long, too long a soldier
F#m A
I've seen so much worth dying for
F#m A
So little worth killing over

B E
Soldiers gone before me
E A B
I will surely fade away
B E
My eyes have seen the glory, and the suffering and the pain
E A B
I've been too long a soldier
E A B
Too long, too long a soldier
E A B
I've been too long a soldier

C#m E

B C#m
(Too long a soldier)
C#m E
Eternal flames blow in the wind
B C#m
(Too long a soldier)
C#m E
My eyes have seen the glory of
B C#m
(Too long a soldier)
C#m E B C#m
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
C#m E B B C#m
Oooh, ooh, ooh
C#m E B B C#m
Oooh, ooh, ooh...

B

C#m E B B C#m (fade on this progression)

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their interpretation of the song.)