Chords for David Nail - Fighter Series (Crissie Carpenter Story)

_ _ _ _ [D#m] I met Andy whenever [G#] I was working at the YMCA.
He walks in [C#] one day and we just kind of started talking and he wanted to [F#] hang out.
I could tell immediately just he had a light in [D#m] his eyes.
You never saw him without a smile.
[B] After we got married, I [F#] lived in North Carolina where he was stationed at for about [C#] six [F#] months
I think before the next appointment and it [D#m] was amazing.
I finally got to [B] experience what I had always dreamt of.
[C#] I actually found out that I was pregnant when he was away [F#] on a training for two weeks.
When [D#m] he came home, I texted him a [B] picture and I just remember him grabbing me and just
like [C#] bear hugging me.
He was so excited.
[F#] The second appointment was similar to the first in the sense [D#] that I didn't hear from him often.
[B] I went to find out the sex of the baby.
[F#] You know, I had already told him the date and I said, call me at this time [C#] and when
I told him [D#] that it was a little boy, [C#] it was just like [C#m] he just screamed in my ear.
He was so excited.
[C#] You know, because he was actually the last carpenter.
So his little [D#m] boy was going to carry on his name.
So that was really important to [B] him.
So [G#] I did get a phone call from Andy [C#] around Christmas time telling me that they're being
sent to Afghanistan.
I was terrified.
[D#] He had arrived in Afghanistan [G#] and one of his buddies actually snuck and [C#] got an Afghan phone.
And he was just letting me know that he [G#] was there and that [C#] he's okay.
But [F#] he also told me that it was really bad [D#m] where he was.
And I had never heard [B] Andy [F#] talk in the way that he did during this phone [C#] call.
He made me promise [F#] that if something was to happen [F#] to him, that [D#] I would promise to keep
Landon a part of his [G#] family's life.
After I hung up [C#] from that phone call, I went [F#] and laid down and I cried, like for the [D#m] next
hour or two until I fell asleep.
On [G#] Valentine's Day 2011, I was driving [F#] and I got a phone call from a number that I didn't recognize.
I answered the phone and [C#] there is someone [D#] on there.
It's not Andy.
[C#] And he [B] is calling from Marine Corps headquarters.
[C#] He starts reading a report to me that Andy was shot [D#] while on patrol in Afghanistan [G#] and
that he was on a ventilator.
I [C#] remember the doctor telling me that Andy was brain dead.
_ _ And [D#m] I didn't believe him.
I was like, surely [F#] there's something that you can do.
And he just kept [C#] saying to me, there's nothing that we can do, Chrissy.
I [B] don't know really how I got through that [C#] next month.
But I guess just [G#] focusing on getting Landon here healthy was my [C#] main thing.
And [D#m] I knew I had to be [F#] strong for him and I had to be strong for Landon.
[C#] So when he [F#] arrived and I saw him, it was just the most incredible experience.
[D#m] He was my strength.
For someone [C#m] that's never met his father, [G#m] he is [C#] so much like his dad.
Like he's just, [F#] he has a goofy personality.
The fact that [D#] Andy kind of still shines through Landon, [G#] and I love that.
[C#] I always tell Landon that his dad was a superhero.
[F#] And we [C#] always, we talk about how [F#] all the guys in the military are superheroes.
[D#m] And firefighters are superheroes.
And [B] police officers are superheroes.
But I also told [C#] him because his dad was a superhero that he's also a hero.
[F#] And I never want him to give up.
And I never want him to [D#m] lose faith in anything.
And [B] I just want him to always be [C#] strong.
And to see that through me and through his [F#] dad.
And I just hope that he [D#m] always carries that with him. _
[B] _ _ _ [C#] My name is Chrissy Carpenter and this is my little boy [F#] Landon.
And I am the wife of Lance [D#m] Corporal Andrew Carpenter.
And this is our [G#] fighter story.
[C#] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ [D#m] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
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