Dearest Sarah

	  		
Intro 
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Am G Am 


Verse 
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Dearest Sarah I'm compelled to write with aching fearful hands  
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Just in case I never make it back  
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I left our family weeks ago for battle stricken lands  
      Am              G               Am 
And I fear I wont survive the next attack  

  Am                 G           F               Am 
I fled Rhode Island willingly to join the Union force  
       Am            G            F 
Understanding I may never know my boys  
         Am                     G            F             Am 
But this country's strength of government is in a great divorce  
        Am             G                Am 
And for this I risk my life and all its joys  

   Am         G              F           Am 
Oh Sarah I do understand within my sacrifice  
     Am           G              F 
Goes nearly every joy for you as well  
      Am                 G             F                Am 
But I hope you sense within my words I thought about it twice  
        Am             G             Am 
But our nation cast a thick momentus spell  

 
   Am            G 
Oh Sarah start a life without me  
Am                G 
Raise our boys to gentlemen  
Am               G             F              Am 
Thrive until the day you pass away and we can meet again  
Am            G 
Understand my inner fight  
  Am                G 
I didn't choose the war  
  Am            G 
I sided with democracy  
   F            C 
As that is what I'm dying for  
   F          Am              C 
Oh Sarah - my love for you is deathless  
   G                          Am 
Oh Sarah - my love for you is deathless 



Instrumental 
Am G Am 
Am G Am 


Verse 
        Am            G              F           Am 
Growing up without my father weighed heavy on my brain  
      Am                  G                   F 
And I dread this makes my children dance that waltz  
        Am                 G                           F               Am 
And I'm sure at times your trust was breached and your love for me did wane  
       Am            G                Am 
But I ask you to forgive me for these faults  

      Am                G            F               Am 
And I can't express the irony of the peaceful summer breeze  
Am            G              F 
Dusting my batallion as they rest   
           Am              G               F            C 
'Cause within this evening warmness lies a dark and icy freeze  
       D                              Am 
That whispered me to send you this request  


Am               G 
Oh Sarah start a life without me  
Am                G 
Raise our boys to gentlemen  
Am               G             F              Am 
Thrive until the day you pass away and we can meet again  
Am            G 
Understand my inner fight  
  Am                G 
I didn't choose the war  
  Am            G 
I sided with democracy  
   F            C 
As that is what I'm dying for  
   F                          C 
Oh Sarah - my love for you is deathless  
   G            Am 
Oh Sarah - it's deathless 


Verse 
     Am             G               F               Am 
I am one of hundred thousand paying all that we can pay  
Am              G               F 
Standing for an object we can't see  
    Am                 G             F                 Am 
Now raise our children proudly to be graceous for each day 
      Am               G                Am 
And remind them of the reasons they are free  

        Am                G            F                     Am 
If it's true the dead can drift unseen around the loves they had  
     Am            G              F 
Then I will be the wind upon your cheek  
        Am                      G         F           Am 
And the darkest moments in your life will never be so bad  
      Am             G                     Am 
Cause I will be your strength when you are weak  

 
Am               G 
Oh Sarah start a life without me  
Am                G 
Raise our boys to gentlemen  
Am               G             F              Am 
Thrive until the day you pass away and we can meet again  
Am            G 
Understand my inner fight  
  Am                G 
I didn't choose the war  
  Am            G 
I sided with democracy  
   F            C 
As that is what I'm dying for  
   F                          C 
Oh Sarah - my love for you is deathless  
   G            Am 
Oh Sarah - it's deathless 
   G                         Am 
Oh Sarah, my love for you is deathless  
   G                         Am 
Oh Sarah, my love for you is deathless