A Father's First Spring chords

The Avett Brothers

Key: 

Simplify chords 

Capo: 4st fret

  			




INTRO 
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VERSE 

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Sweetest surrender of winter 
G 
She put up her flag, it is waving 
Am                                  G 
The thunder of summer is rumbling in 
G 
And I haven't seen you in days 
G 
And my, how that feeling has changed 
      Am                                      G 
Oh, I have been homesick for you since we met 
Am 
I have been homesick for you 


INTRO 


VERSE 

G 
I've got to take to the sky 
G 
And I'll tell you what that means for you and I 
      Am          G 
If I die it's for you 
      Am          G 
If I die it's for you 


C                     G 
I never lived 'til I lived in your light 
      Am                       C           D 
And my heart never beat like it does at the sight 
   C                  G 
Of you baby blue, God blessed your life 
Am                   C              G 
I do not live 'less I live in your light 
Am                   C              G     
I do not live 'less I live in your light 


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The realest thing I ever felt 
G 
Was the blood on the floor and the love in your yell 
Am                  G 
I was a child before 
Am 
The day that I met Eleanor 

SOLO 

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Kiss of the wind in the hill 

The clearness of morning, the late evening thrill 
Am                          G 
Blurry and gray like the roar 
Am                                         G 
The wheels on the highway, above them I soar 

G 
When I'm in the sweet daughter's eyes 
G 
My heart is now ruined for the rest of all time 
Am                                 G 
There's no part of it left to give 
Am                                 G 
There's no part of it left to give 



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I never lived 'til I lived in your light 
      Am                       C           D 
And my heart never beat like it does at the sight 
   C                  G 
Of you baby blue, God blessed your life 
Am                   C              G 
I do not live 'less I live in your light 
Am                   C              G     
I do not live 'less I live in your light 
Am                       C                 G 
I do not live    



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