Texas chords by Goodnight

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


   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