Dearest Sarah chords by Goodnight

Chords with lyrics

This version still has some kinks and is far from being perfect, but it's the only
one and it is at least an easy version to sing along to. If you have any suggestions
on how to improve it please do tell and I'll happily change it.

[Intro]
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
Am G+G A minorAm


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

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

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


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

[Instrumental]
A minorAm G+G A minorAm
Am G+G A minorAm


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

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


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


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

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


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