Chords for Ben Bullington Memorial

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_ _ _ _ _ We lost a friend of ours on Monday of this week and _
He's the son of Roanoke.
He grew up in Roanoke right here
right amongst you and
He moved out west a long time ago.
I don't even know how long ago
but that's where he had his kids and raised his kids and he was a doctor and
His name's Ben Bullington
_ _ Ending the set we want to
End with a song that Ben wrote
_ _ He's a man that I admire _
you know, we [F] have singer-songwriter friends me and Tim and _
There's very few people _ _ _ _
Who hold down another job while being the singer-songwriter
In the privacy of their own room writing the songs that they feel like writing and so they don't have any kind of commercial
_ _ _ _ Thing
on them they just get to write freely because sometimes when you do this for a living you [F#] can sort of think that
What you do and what you write is being watched in sort of some way that really isn't
important at all to the the creative process and
Ben figured this out
from what I understand he was an ER doctor and _ _
Working all night long and it would get slow there in white sulfur Springs, Montana
And he would work on songs and the way I see it is he wrote them the way he wanted to he didn't have to
How to anything [F] other than his own?
_ [D] inspiration and I
got to know Ben in the last few years of his life and
_ _ We [E] thought it was absolutely appropriate [G] to do a song [N] of Ben's here tonight
And I thought it'd be good to end this set with it.
He just spent the last year as a singer-songwriter
He quit the ER when he found that he had a terminal
_ Cancer and he spent that last year _
Traveling around as best he could
Doing his songs.
He comes from Roanoke right here amongst you Ben Bullington.
Dr.
Ben
Like [D] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ [B] _ _ [D] _
[G] to _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ do this for Carter his brother who's here [B] tonight
_ _ _ _ [G] _
Too many [D] men are worse than [A] rodents too _ _ [G] _ _ [D] many kill with easy minds _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Just [D] used to memorize [A] a passage
_ _ From a fable [D]
God whose hands are full of [A] time _ _ _
_ [Bm] our souls [A] might
[F#m] mingle [D] in the aftertouch
_ _ [Bm] Like four [G] friends smoking [F#m] on a midnight [D] porch
_ _ I've
[Em] always loved [D] you the best I knew [A] how
_ [E] _ _ I [Bm] gotta [A] leave you now
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ [G] If you find yourself at [D] peace
Learn [A] to keep it _ _
_ [G] If you find [D] yourself in battle carry [G] on
_ Or _ _ save your [D] life and flee the crazy [A] captain _
_ _ _ [G] Whose connection to this [D] planets all but gone?
_ [E] _ _ _
[G] And I hope you have [D] real love in your [A] future
_ _ _ _ [G] I hope you dance each [D] month of May
[G] And _ _ _ _ _ _ also put [D] your shoulder to a [A] purpose _ and _ _ [D]
leave this world a slightly better place
[A] _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] Our [F#m] souls [G]
might mingle in the _ aftertouch _
[Bm] Like four [G] friends smoking [F#m] on a midnight [G] porch
_ _ I've
[D]
Always [Em] _ loved [D] you the best _ [A] I knew how I _ _ _
[Bm] Gotta [A] leave you now
[G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [G] _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Bm] _
[F#m] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
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_ [B] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[G] _ And [D] promise me you [A] won't worry
_ _ _ _ [Gm] It's probably like the [D] time before I [G] was born _ _ _
_ _ And [D] make some waves out on [A] the ocean
_ _ _ _ With [G]
all the best [F#m] inside you my [A] son
[B] _
_ _ _ Our [G] souls might mingle in the [D] aftertouch _ _ _
[Bm] Like [A] four [D] friends smoking on a midnight [G] porch
_ _ I've
[Bm]
Always [Em] _ [D] loved you the best _ I know [Am] how
_ [E] _ _
[Bm] I gotta leave you [G] now.
_ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ I gotta I gotta leave you [B] now
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