Intro: F - Eb - F/D - Bb/G - Bb - C
F Bb/C C
A few more days and we'll be home in glory
Bb/G C
Already they'll be getting out the flags
F Bb/C C
With Memphis high motor dormitory
Eb C Bb/G C
For me, I only see a lot of snags
F Bb/C C
The prospect above all I find distressful
Bb/G C
Is having to give up the soldier's life
F Bb/C C
If anything I'm rather too successful
Bb/G Bb/C Eb F
They made me hand my sword in for a wife
Bb F/A
For just because I've triumphed as a slaver
Bb F/A
Brought booty back to Egypt by the ton
Ab Eb/G
Of this and every month, I'm now the flavor
Bb/G Bb/C C
And scheduled to do things I've never done
F Eb F/D
And why should I tell you this, a stranger I just met
Cm F Bb
A woman who in hours from now I'll certainly forget
F/A Am
Anonymous and undemanding
A Dm
Enchantment passing through
Gm Eb C Bb/G Bb/C
My secrets and my confidence.....are safe enough with you
F Bb/C C
My days out on the field are all but ended
Bb/G C
They'll put me out to grass which means the throne
F Bb/C C
Bedecked and bejeweled alongside my intended
Eb C Bb/G C
I feel as though my heart is set in stone
F Bb/C C
But maybe I am being far too gloomy
Bb/G C
Yes, maybe I'll make waves in pastures new
F Bb/C C
Find government and politics come to me
Bb/G Bb/C Eb F
As naturally as I now talk to you