Soldier Boy ukulele

Soldier Boy

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Soldier Boy - Northern Uproar

B-side to A Girl I Once Knew

Song is in A, although if I play on acoustic I use capo on 2nd fret and use G 
instead of A and so on.

Intro bass riff for guitar x 4 and then guitar comes in


Basis of verse riff is A, A,Dadd9, Dadd9, A, A:

    A   A  Dadd9 Dadd9


Verse 1 (use verse riff where A chord is shown):
A
Living in a street in my hometown, gets me down, down, down
                      Bm                   D                  A
It gets me where i've found, cos theres no place for us to go around

Verse 2:
A
And everybody here's a soldier man,you know theyre going where they're going
                             Bm                 D                   A  A,G#m
And there's nowhere left you know,there aint no place for us we can go.

Pre-chorus:
F#m                           Bm                                 F#m
I found some tracks I made it clear (found some tracks I made it clear)
                        Bm           D  E
I'm telling everybody I know, when I go

Chorus:
               A Bm    D
That i'm not a soldier boy, cos I can do anything
A Bm    D
Soldier boy, yeah
A                    Bm             D
Never gonna give up, never gonna be ignored, no
A Bm    D
Soldier boy.

(Intro riff)

Verse 3:
A
Coming with belief I thought i'd found, left me down, down, down
                  Bm                 D                   A
It left me like a clown, cos aint no chance i'm gonna be found

Verse 4:
A
If anybody here could understand, things would be different
                       Bm           D                      A    A, G#m
But it's not the way I am, gonna be myself, i'm gonna be a man. 

Pre-chorus:
F#m                           Bm                                 F#m
I found some tracks I made it clear (found some tracks I made it clear)
                        Bm           D  E
I'm telling everybody I know, when I go

Chorus:
               A Bm    D
That i'm not a soldier boy, cos I can do anything
A Bm    D
Soldier boy, yeah
A                    Bm             D
Never gonna give up, never gonna be ignored, no
A Bm    D
Soldier boy.

(Intro riff x 4)

Bm, D, E

Solo: chords are B5, C#5, E5

Chorus:
A Bm    D
Soldier boy, cos I can do anything
A Bm    D
Soldier boy, yeah
A                    Bm             D
Never gonna give up, never gonna be ignored, no
A Bm    D
Soldier boy.

(End)

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