Tonalidad: Eb major
Verse 1
D
Down the long road
F
G
a soldier came a -walkin'
Back from the long wars,
Gm
C#m
no more for to roam
G
F#m
When a woman he saw
G
C#m
come walking towards him
G
F#m
G
Singing to herself
F#m
as she made her way home
Gm
His hand touched his camp
F#m
as he stepped up to her.
G
Are you going as far
as the mill there ahead?
She said that she was,
F#m
G
C#m
he asked to walk with her.
G
So sweetly she smiled.
F#m
Indeed you may, she said.
For several long years
G
that smile he'd remembered.
A
What is your name?
G
Please tell me, dear.
Mary Johnson's my name.
C#m
My man, he's the Miller,
G
and a father he'll be by
A
G
the end of the year.
C#m
G
Em
The soldier's face was burnt brown
G
from the hot sun of Indy.
A
Am
It saddened and paled
G
when he heard what she said,
for this last one he left
D
had been his own true love.
G
But now here she was
A
G
to his young brother Wen.
Em
Your husband, it seems,
G
he's the man I am seeking.
A
For it's news of his brother
G
D
G
that I've come to tell.
D
He was my close comrade
G
D
through many's of the battle.
G
And together we were
Am
G
on the day that he fell.
Em
G
His last dying words he said,
go and seek my brother.
D
Give him this watch,
G
this gold ring also.
Tell him to look after
my own darling Mary.
The girl I'd have married
when the long walls were old.
F
When she took the gold ring,
G
Gm
how deep she was sobbing,
she leaned on the dike,
G
Gm
so pale and so worn,
G
so much he could tell her
D
of her undead true lover.
G
When she looked up to ask him,
the soldier had gone.
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