A Fathers First Spring chords by The Avett Brothers

Capo IV

Listen for the walk ups

INTRO
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VERSE

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Sweetest surrender of winter
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She put up her flag, it is waving
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The thunder of summer is rumbling in
G
And I haven't seen you in days
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And my, how that feeling has changed
      Am                                      G
Oh, I have been homesick for you since we met
Am
I have been homesick for you

INTRO

VERSE
G
I've got to take to the sky
G
And I'll tell you what that means for you and I
      Am          G
If I die it's for you
      Am          G
If I die it's for you

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I never lived 'til I lived in your light
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And my heart never beat like it does at the sight
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Of you baby blue, God blessed your life
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I do not live 'less I live in your light
Am                   C              G
I do not live 'less I live in your light

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The realest thing I ever felt
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Was the blood on the floor and the love in your yell
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I was a child before
Am
The day that I met Eleanor

SOLO

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Kiss of the wind in the hill

The clearness of morning, the late evening thrill
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Blurry and gray like the roar
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The wheels on the highway, above them I soar

G
When I'm in the sweet daughter's eyes
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My heart is now ruined for the rest of all time
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There's no part of it left to give
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There's no part of it left to give



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I never lived 'til I lived in your light
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And my heart never beat like it does at the sight
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Of you baby blue, God blessed your life
Am                   C              G
I do not live 'less I live in your light
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I do not live 'less I live in your light
Am                       C                 G
I do not live



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