Chords:
{t:Vacant Chair, The}
{artist:Kathy Mattea}
{key: A}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXtjE9KaMYI
{c: Based on rhondamc22 version via Ultimate Guitar}
[A] [E7] [A]
[A] We shall meet but we shall miss him,
there will [D] be one vacant [A] chair;
[A] we shall linger to caress him,
[A] While we [B7] breathe our ev'ning [E7] pray'r
{c: }
When a [A] year ago we gathered,
joy was [D] in his mild blue [A] eyes,
[A] But a golden chord is severed,
And our hopes in [E7] ruin [A] lie.
[A] We shall [D] meet but we shall [A] miss him,
[A] there will be one vacant [E7] chair,
[E7] We shall [A] linger to ca-[D]ress him,
while we [A] breathe our [E7] ev'ning [A] pray'r.
[A] [D] [E7] [A]
[A] At our fireside, sad and lonely,
often [D] will the bosom [A] swell
[A] at remembrance of the story,
How our [B7] noble Willie [E7] fell;
How [E7] he [A] strove to bear our banner
through the [D] thickest of the [A] fight,
[A] And uphold our country's honor,
in the strength of [E7] manhood's [A] night.
[A] We shall [D] meet but we shall [A] miss him,
there will be one vacant [E7] chair,
[E7] We shall [A] linger to ca-[D]ress him,
while we [A] breathe our [E7] ev'ning [A] pray'r.
[A] True, they tell us wreaths of glory
ever [D] more will deck his [A] brow,
but this soothes the [A] anguish only,
Sweeping [B7] o'er our heartstrings [E7] now.
Sleep to-[A] day, oh early fallen,
in thy [D] green and narrow [A] bed,
[A] Dirges from the pine and cypress
mingle with the [E7] tears we [A] shed.
[A] We shall [D] meet but we shall [A] miss him,
[A] there will be one vacant [E7] chair,
[E7] We shall [A] linger to ca-[D]ress him,
while we [A] breathe [E7] our ev'ning [A] pray'r.
