Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

  Come here and look through the window Marie

  Open up the shutters,tell me what you see

  Was that his knock that i heard at the door

  Or is it six white horses coming down the road

Verse 2

  Come here and touch me and say that it's alright

  You know that to my eyes the days are as the nights

  Read again the letter that tells me where he's gone

  To hell with the fighting i want my son home

Verse 3

  I taught him to fish and i taught him to be strong

  I taught him that killing any man was wrong

  But tommorrow in battle i'd run to where he stood

  If the help of a blind man would do any good

 Break .

Verse 4

(a tone higher)

  Last night i went to his room for awhile

  I've touched all the things that he used as a child

  I rocked the cradle where he used to lay

  I found his tin soldiers and threw them away

Verse 5

(idem)

  Come here and look through the window Marie

  Open up the shutters,tell me what you see

  Was that his knock that i heard at the door

  Or is it six white horses coming up the road