Good Christian Soldier
Bare/Shaver
Album: The Silver Tongued Devil and I


INTRO: C

C            G          C
Not so long ago, in Oklahoma
    G                                C    C7
The son of an Okie preacher knelt to pray
          F                           C
He said, "Lord I wanna be a Christian soldier just like you
    D7                              G
And fight to build a new and better day"

    C              G              C
Now many years and miles from Oklahoma
     G                                   C    C7
That same young Okie boy still kneels to pray
    F                                C
But he don't pray to be no Christian soldier anymore
                         G               C  C7
He just prays to make it through another day


CHORUS 1:
            F            G         F   F/A C
'Cause it's hard to be a Christian soldier when you tote a gun
       F                G       F     F/A C
And it hurts to have to watch a grown man cry
          F              G             C   C/B            Am
But we're playin' cards, writin' home, and havin' lots of fun
D                                 G   G7
Tellin' jokes and learnin' how to die

C            G                                C
You know the things I've come to know seem so confusing
G                                           C     C7
It's gettin' hard to tell what's wrong from right
        F                             C
I can't separate the winners from the losers anymore
                         G             C
And I'm thinking of just givin' up the fight


CHORUS 2:
It's hard to be a Christian soldier when you tote a gun
And it hurts to have to watch a grown man cry
But we're playin' cards, writin' home, anyway havin' fun
Turnin' on and learnin' how to die