[Legend]
h - hammer on/pull off
[Intro]
D Em
E |--------0--2-----2--0--2----|--3--2--0-------------------|-----0--2--3-----3--5--3----|-----2--0-------|
B |--2--3----------------------|--------------3-------------|--3-------------------------|----------------|
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A |----------------------------|----------------------------|----------------------------|----------------|
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A G A D
e |-----0--2--3-----3--2--3----|--2-----0-----0-----0-------|--2h-0----------------------|----------------|
B |--3-------------------------|----------------------------|--------3--------------0h---|--2h--3---------|
G |----------------------------|----------------------------|-----------2--2h-4--4-------|----------------|
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[Verse 1]
D Em
When that three day battle ended, one man in blue was found
A G D
With no name to tell his story, as they laid him in the ground
D Em
Just one more unknown soldier, but held tightly to his chest
A G A D
Was a picture of three children, dressed in their Sunday best.
[Verse 2]
D Em
They pried it from his fingers, clutched tightly in his grasp
A G D
Knowing it was the last thing, he'd seen before he passed
D Em
The story of that picture, traveled farther north each day
A G A
Where all the local papers, described on their front page.
[Chorus]
G A D D/Db Bm
A picture of three children, in three little wooden chairs
G A D D7
Two brothers and one sister, sweet faces and dark hair
G A D D/Db Bm
Three angels to one soldier, whose name remains unknown
G A G A D
A picture of three children, whose father won't be coming home.
[Solo]
D Em
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G |----------------------------|--0-------------------------|-----------0-----0--2--0L---|--0-------------|
D |-----0--2--4-----4--2--4----|-----4--2-----0-------------|--0--2--4-------------------|-----4--2-------|
A |--4-------------------------|----------------------------|----------------------------|----------------|
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A G D
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D Em
E |--------0--2--0--2-----2----|--3--2--0-------------------|-----0--2--3-----3--5--3----|-----2--0-------|
B |--2--3----------------------|--------------3-------------|--3-------------------------|----------------|
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A |----------------------------|----------------------------|----------------------------|----------------|
E |----------------------------|----------------------------|----------------------------|----------------|
A G A D
e |-----0--2--3-----3--2--3----|--2-----0-----0-----0-------|--2h-0----------------------|----------------|
B |--3-------------------------|----------------------------|--------3--------------0h---|--2h--3---------|
G |----------------------------|----------------------------|-----------2--2h-4--4-------|----------------|
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[Verse 3]
D Em
In New York a wife and mother, was waiting for some word
A G D
From the father of her children, last seen in Gettysburg
D Em
When she read about that picture, found on a Union man
A G A
And knew her husband Amos, had held tightly in his hand.
[Chorus]
G A D D/Db Bm
A picture of three children, in three little wooden chairs
G A D D7
Two brothers and one sister, sweet faces and dark hair
G A D D/Db Bm
Three angels to one soldier, whose name was finally known
G A G A D
A picture of three children, whose father won't be coming home
G A G A D
It was a picture of three children, Amos won't be coming home.