Dearest Sarah chords by Goodnight

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]
Am G Am
Am G Am


[Verse]
        Am            G                   F              Am
Dearest Sarah I'm compelled to write with aching fearful hands
Am             G             F
Just in case I never make it back
  Am              G             F
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


[Chorus]
   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


[Chorus]
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


[Chorus]
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