Chords for Dearest Sarah

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_ _ _ _ Dearest Sarah, [B] I'm compelled to write [Dm] with aching, [A] fearful hands
Just in case I never [Dm] make it back
_ _ _ [A] I left [B] our family weeks ago [Dm] for battle [A]-stricken lands
And I fear [Em] I won't survive the next attack
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_ _ I fled Rhode [E] Island willingly [Dm] to join the Union [A] Force
_ Understanding I [Em] may never [Dm] know my boys _
_ [A] But this country's strength of government [Dm] is in a [A] great divorce
_ And for this I [A] risk my life and all its joys _ _
_ Oh Sarah, I do [Dm] understand within my [Am] sacrifice
_ Goes nearly [Em] every joy [Dm] for you as well _ _ _
[A] But I hope you sense [E] within my [F] words I've thought about [A] it twice
But our nation [G] casts a thick, [A] momentous spell _ _
Oh Sarah, [G] start a life without [Am] me, raise [G] our boys to gentlemen
[A] And [D] thrive until the day you [Dm] pass away and [A] we can meet again
_ Understand [G] my inner [A] fight, I didn't [G] choose the war
[A] I sided [G] with democracy, [Dm] yes, that is what [C] I'm dying [Dm] for
Oh Sarah, but my love for [C] you is deathless _ _
[G] Oh Sarah, my love for [Am] you is deathless _ _
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Growing up without [G] my father [Dm] weighed heavy on [A] my brain
And I dread this [G] makes my children [F] dance that waltz _
[A] And I'm sure at [G] times your trust was [E] breached and your love for me [A] did wane
But I ask you to [C] forgive me for [A] these faults _ _
And I can't [G] express the irony [F] of the peaceful summer [A] breeze _
Dusting [Bm] my battalion as [F] they rest _ _ _
[A] Cause within this [G] evening's warmness [F] lies a dark and [C] icy freeze
[Dm] That whispered me to send you [A] this request _ _ _
Oh Sarah, [G] start a life without [Am] me, raise our [G] boys to gentlemen
[Am] And thrive [G] until the day you [F] pass away and we [A] can meet again
Understand [G] my inner fight, [Am] I didn't [G] choose the war
[A] I sided with [G] democracy, [F] yes, that is [C] what I'm dying for
[Dm] Oh Sarah, but my love for [C] you is deathless
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Oh Sarah, _ _ _ [A] it's deathless
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_ _ _ _ [E] I am one of hundred thousand paying all that we [A] can pay _
Standing [A] for an object we can't see
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Now raise our [A] children proudly to be gracious for each day
And remind them of [Em] the reasons [Am] they are free
If _ it's true the [Em] dead can drift [F] unseen around the [A] loves they had
Then I will [Em] be the wind [E] upon your cheek
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[A] the darkest [Em] moments in [E] your life will never be [A] so bad
Cause I will be [G] your strength when [A] you are weak _ _ _
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Oh Sarah, [G] start a life [Am] without me, raise our [G] boys to gentlemen
[Am] And thrive [D] until the day you [Dm] pass away and [Am] we can meet again
_ Understand [D] my inner fight, [Am] I didn't choose [G] the war
[Am] I sided [G] with democracy, [E] yes, that is what [C] I'm dying [E] for
Oh Sarah, but my love for [C] you is deathless _
[G] Oh Sarah, my love for [A] you is deathless _
[F] Oh Sarah, my love for [C] you is deathless _
[G] Oh Sarah, my love for [Am] you is deathless _
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