Chords for Lucero - Ben Nichols solo set at Twist & Shout - To My Dearest Wife

_ How y'all doing this afternoon?
_ [Abm] Thanks for coming out [Eb] and drinking beer in the daytime [Ab] y'all. _
_ _ _ _ What do you think about [B] Denver?
What?
_ _ Um_ _ _
[Eb] _ I love Denver.
_ [N] Happy birthday to you!
I like this a [F] lot.
Happy _ _ _ birthday [G] to [Ab] you!
_ _ _ Happy _ _ birthday _ _ to [N]
you!
_ _ _ _ Y _ _ _ _ _ 'all gonna make me tear up.
_ _ Cheers. _ _
Let's make this more illegal.
_ Love you Denver. _
_ [G] _ _ _ Yep.
Alright.
_ [Eb] _ So, thank you to Twist and Shout and Open Air.
[G] _ _ _ [N] _
Let's see if I _ remember any of these [G] songs.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ Alright, since we got the new album coming out tomorrow,
I figure [N] some of y'all maybe heard a little bit of it.
Yes we do!
Good, good, good. _
_ I've never played these songs really acoustic before.
I don't know if they're gonna work [Eb] or not.
Y'all are kind of the test audience for this.
_ [Bbm] _
[Gm] So we're gonna start with an easy one.
Well, I think it's easy.
[C] _ _
[G] This one's called To [Abm] My Dearest Wife.
Thanks [C] again y'all for being here.
_ [G] _ _ I'm _ _
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_ _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _
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waiting on the sunrise, [C] I've given up on sleep.
_ [Em] My only thoughts are with y'all [B] back [G] home in Tennessee. _ _ _ _ _ _
Looking on the hilltop, [C] we got covered up in the trees.
_ [Em] Between the two, an open field that [C] looks like hill [G] to me.
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
[Em] To my [C] dearest [G] wife I write, _ _ _ _ [Em] I kiss our baby girl [G] goodnight. _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ Tomorrow's battle will [G] not wait, _ _ _ _ _ [Em]
I don't see [C] no [G] other way. _ _
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Well I can see the old house, [C]
not too long ago.
_ [Em] _
Baby now I slip by your side, was [C] heaving just [G] beating home. _ _ _ _ _ _
I hear him calling really bleak, [C] and I can see the sun.
_ [Em] I break my heart, we're kept apart, [A] still [C]
fighting to [G] be done.
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[Em] To my [G] dearest wife I write, _ _ _ _ _ I kiss our baby girl goodnight. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ Tomorrow's battle will [G] not wait, _ _ _ _ [Em] I don't see [C] no [G] other way. _ _
_ [C] _ [G] Well my eyes have _ seen the _ glory, _ _ [E] the glory of [D] the coming of [C] the Lord.
_ _ [D] And [G] he is trampling _ _ at the venice, _ [C] _ _ [E] the venice where [G] the rap story. _ _ _
[C] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ [Em] _
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Well now the sun is risen, [C] he and the world are meet.
[Em] My thoughts was turning to work and [Am] hand, [G] far from Tennessee. _ _ _ _ _ _
Looking on the hilltop, we're [C] leaving the cover of the trees.
_ [Em] March across that open field that [G] looks like hill to me.
_ _ _ _ _ [Em]
To my [G] dearest wife I write, _ _ _ _ _ I kiss our baby girl goodnight. _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ Tomorrow's battle will [G] not wait, _ _ _ _ _ [Em] I don't see [C] no [G] other way. _ _ _
_ [Em] The battle [G] war was burning inside, _ _ _ _ [Em] hand in hand they [G] once decided. _ _
_ _ _ [Em] Across the field they [G] always, _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em]
I don't see [G] no other way. _
_ _ _ To my dearest wife I write, _ _ _ _ [Em] I kiss our baby [C] [G] girl goodnight. _ Amen. _ _ _ _ _