When The Boys Come Marching Home

G# Eb/G Fm F# Fm


[Verse 1]
G#                         Bbm
How to make amends for the things they say
 F#                         G#
The girls avoid the stormy sky
    A           F#
But I and my cloudy face
   F#                            G#
Will be gone, high-tailing out of here
 G#                              Bbm
Is the lights a-blazing in their lonely town?
F#                       G#
I love the little cars at dawn
   A              F#
But I and my heathen heart
  F#                          G#
Will be lain upon some foreign shore
  A                           F
Here's the saddest Joe on the corner of the town
 F#m                       D
"Listen to the words!" he cries
   G#                             Ebsus4          Eb
I love him in his craziness, his tatters and his courage
       Edim                                   F
He'll thumb his nose at the straight and true


[Chorus]
         G#                 Eb/G
When the boys come marching home
         Edim                  F
They'll fly his rags from the highest tree
          G#                Eb/G
When the boys come marching home
          Fm                  F#
(when the boys come marching home)
         Fm        F#
(home, marching home)


[Verse 2]
  G#                           Bbm
Aching for some innocence and peace of mind
 F#                                 G#
While the moon pulls up its net of souls
     A                       F#
The sun presses down on my brave new world
   F#                              G#
But, in truth, i don't feel brave at all
   G#                           Bbm
Leave it all behind me to the townies and the wags
   F#                          G#
The kids who never learned to smile
      A           F#
While I and the cobbled nag I ride
     F#m                 G#
Stumble down another weary mile
 A
Here's to those who cluster
 F
Walking through the wars
 F#m                           D
The girls who never close 'til dawn
     G#
They rag upon the feeble
         Ebsus4           Eb
And they swan around the stronger
          Edim                   F
But their eyes are fixed on the edge of town
          G#                 Eb/G
When the boys come marching home
         Edim                   Fm
They'll slide from view - tiny, two by two


[Chorus]
         G#                  Eb/G
When the boys come marching home
   Fm          F#
(home, marching home)
   Fm          F#
(home, marching home)
         G#                 Eb/G
When the boys come marching home
         Fm                  F#
(when the boys come marching home)
   Fm               F#
Boys come marching home
  Fm             F#
(home, marching home)
                  G#                Eb/G
(home, when the boys come marching home)
  Fm
(home, marching home)
  F#
(home)
          G#                 Eb/G
(when the boys come marching home)