I Don't Want to Wait

[Gsus2]
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S[E]o open up your morn-ing light and

 [Gsus2]
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s[C]ay a little prayer for I.  You know that

 [Gsus2]
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i[E]f we are to stay alive, then

 [Gsus2]
 [D]
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s[C]ee the peace in every eye.

D[G]u du du, etc.

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Du du du, etc.

S[G]he had two babies,

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o[G]ne was six months, one was three

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in the war of forty four.

E[G]very telephone ring, every heartbeat stinging when she

t[Em7]hought it was G[D]od calling [Cmaj9]her.  Oh, would

h[Em]er son g[D6]row to know his fath[Cadd9]er?

I[G] don't want to wait for ou[D]r       [F#]
[Em11]lives to be ove[Dsus4]r I

w[C6]ant to know right now,[G] what wi[B]ll it

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b[A]e?   [Dsus4]
(repeat)
I don't want to wait for our lives to be over
Will it be yes, or will it be sorry?

D[G]u du du du du

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Du du du du du

(repeat verse one chords)
He showed up all wet on the rainy front step
wearing shrapnel in his skin.
And the war he saw linves inside him still.
It's so hard to be gentle and warm.
The years pass by and now he has granddaughters

O[G7]h, so you look at me from across the room.  You're
[Am9b13]wearing your anguish again. Believe

m[Bb]e, I know the feeling; it

s[Fsus4]ucks you into the jaws of a[Cadd9]nger.

O[G7]h, so breath a little more deeply, my love.  All we
[Am9b13]have is this very moment

a[Bb]nd I don't want to do what his father and his father and

h[Fsus4]is fater did.  I want to be here n[Gsus2]ow.

Du du du's