Chords for Goodnight, Texas // "Dearest Sarah" - Washburn Imagery Sessions

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_ _ _ Dearest Sarah, [Em] I'm compelled to [Am] write with aching, fearful hands, just in [G] case I never make it [F] back.
_ _ [Am] I [G] left our family weeks [Dm] ago for battle [A]-stricken lands, and I fear [G] I won't survive [Am] the next attack.
_ _ _ _ _ I fled [G] Rhode Island willingly [Dm] to join the Union [Am] force, _ understanding I [G] may never know my [F] voice.
_ [A] But this [G] country's strength of [Dm] government has been a great [A] divorce, and for this I [G] risk my life in [A] all its joy.
_ Oh, [Em] Sarah, I do [Dm] understand within my [Am] sacrifice goes nearly every [G] joy for you [F] as well.
_ [A] But I hope [G] you sense within my [F] words I've thought [Am] about it twice, but our nation [G] casts a thick [A] momentous spell.
Oh, Sarah, [Em] start a life without [Am] me, raise our [G] boys to tell them, [A] and thrive [G] until the day you [Am] pass away and we can meet again.
Understand [G] my [Am] inner fight, I didn't [G] choose the war.
[A] I sided [G] with democracy, [Dm] yes, that is what [C] we died [Dm] for.
But my love for [C] you is deathless.
[G] Oh, Sarah, my love [Am] for you is deathless. _ _ _ _
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Growing up without [G] my father [Dm] weighed [Am] heavy on my brain, and I dread this [G] makes my children [F] dance the halls. _
[A] And I'm sure at [G] times your trust was [Dm] breached and your love for me [A] did wane, but I ask you [G] to forgive me [A] for these faults. _
And I can't [G] express the irony [F] of the peaceful [Am] summer breeze, dusting [G] my battalion [F] as they rest. _
[A] Because within this [G] evening's formless [F] lies a dark [C] and icy freeze, [D] it whispered me to send you [Am] this request. _
Oh, Sarah, [G] start a life without [A] me, raise our [G] boys to tell them, [A] and thrive [G] until the day you [F] pass away and [Am] we can meet again.
Understand [G] my inner [Am] fight, I didn't choose [G] the war.
[A] I sided [G] with democracy, [Dm] yes, that is [C] what I'm dying [Dm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
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_ _ _ [A] I am one of hundred [B] thousand paying [A] all that we can pay, _ standing for [Em] an object we [F] can't see.
_ [A] Now raise our [G] children proudly to [Am] be gracious for each day, and remind them [Em]
they [A] are free. _ _ _ _ _ _
And if it's true the [G] dead can [Dm] drift unseen [F] around the [A] loves they had, then I will [G] be the wind [F] upon your cheek. _
[Am] And the darkest [D] moments in your [F] life will never be [A] so bad, because I will be [G] your strength when [Am] you are weak. _ _
_ _ _ _ Oh, Sarah, [D] start a life without [Am] me, raise our [G] boys to tell them, [Am] and thrive [G] until the day you [Dm] pass away and [Am] we can meet again.
Understand [G] my inner fight, [Am] I didn't choose [G] the war.
[Am] I sided with [G]
[Dm] democracy, yes, that is what [C] I'm dying for.
[Dm] Oh, Sarah, my _ [C] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
love for [A] you is deathless.
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