Soldier Boy Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[Am][Dm][Am][B][Am]
[Dm][Am][B][Am]
[Bb][Am]
[Bb]

[Verse 1]
[Am]Little soldier,
plastic pistol
aiming for the head.
Now you see me, now you don't.
You missed me, you're [Bb]dead.
[Am]Laughing, hiding in the bushes,
scatter for your life.
Little soldier tripped and fell,
get him with your [Bb]knife.

[Verse 2]
[Dm]Electric eye is loaded,
it shows them it's okay [Am]to kill.

[Interlude 1]
They eventually will.
[Am][Bb]

[Verse 3]
[Am]Mother calls you in for lunch,
put the war on hold.
Too rough to play with other kids,
how many times you've been [Bb]told.
[Am]Laugh at pain it's silly.
He'd make the soldiers bleed.
Break the flesh, twist the bone,
bring them to their knees.
[Bb][Dm]

[Verse 4]
You don't throw stick and stone,
you leave the little girls [Am]alone she said,
leave them
[Dm]alone.
First sight of blood at ten,
fell off the swing and cracked [Am]his head,
it's all red.

[Verse 5]
[G5]A still and quiet con [Am]scien[C]ce,
[Dm]regardless of thei[Bb]r doom,
The vic[Am]tims play, they're on their [G5]way,
[Bb]Sol [F]dier B[G5]oy.
No sense they [C]have, of ills [Dm]to come.
Nor care [Bb]beyond ills of [Am]today,
they've lost their [G5]way, [Gm]Sol [Bb]dier [F]Boy.[Am][Dm][Am]

[Interlude 2]
[Dm][Am][B][Am][Dm]
[Am][B][Am][A5][B]
[C5][Am][B][A5][F#m][F#][B]
[C5][B][F#m][A5]
[G5][B][A5][G5][A5][B]
[G5][Am][B][G5][F#m][F#][Em]
[E5][Em][Am][Em][Dm][Em]
[Dm][Em][Dm][Em]
[Dm][Em]
[Dm][Em][Dm][B][C]
[Am]Playgrounds

[Verse 6]
into battle fields,
diapers into greens and stripes,
Mold plastic into steel,
the war is real,
the solders fight to[Bb]night.
[Am]Little solder falls once more,
sees red glow like the sun.
Mother calls him back to
Arlington, in Wash[Bb]ington.
[Dm]

[Verse 7]
You don't throw stick and stone,
you leave the little girls [Am]alone she said,
leave them
[Dm]alone.
First sight of blood at ten,
fell off the swing and cracked [Am]his head,
it's all red.

[Verse 8]
[G5]A still and quiet conscien[C]ce,
[Dm]regardless of thei[Bb]r doom,
The victim[Am]s play,
they're on their [G5]way,
[Bb]Sol [F]dier B[G5]oy.
No sense they [C]have, of ills [Dm]to come.
Nor care [Bb]beyond ills of [Am]today,
they've lost their [G5]way,
[Bb]Sol [F]dier Boy.

[Outro 1]
[G5][Am][C][Bb][F][G5][G5][G5]