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AMBER DREAM
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This song was recorded 04/14/1985 at Johnson County
Christian Church (now "Legacy") in Overland Park Kansas, USA.
The event was a concert by the Seekers Of His Grace
gospel band, in which I, Dan Martin, played guitar.

That cassette recording is digitized and archived at this link:
  https://www.dansher.com/audio/band/Amber_Dream.mp3

The opening song, Amber Dream, was in rememberance of and
dedicated to Scott Robert Martin, one of Dan's four sons.
A car accident had taken Scott's life on 10/09/1983.

Amber Dream was written using many of the words and
phrases (apparently written by Scott) upon papers
that I (Dan) found at daybreak the same day scattered
about the scene of the accident.

Scott left our world on October 9th, 1983, at 20 years of age.
He would have been 60 years old on May 12th 2023.

The lyrics follow:

AMBER DREAM   by Scott and Dan Martin  (about May '85)
======================================================

G               Am
Time for me was slipping by
  C  Cmaj7               G
I wondered why it should be.
   G               Am
My life was just a battle ground
  C Cmaj7               G
I never found peace for me.


Em                  C
So many questions,  so few answers
  G                                       D
I cried: "Oh Lord please help me find the Way".
Em                 C
Time goes by, like pictures on a screen
 G                          D
Another day, another broken dream.
      C            C             G
Sweet Jesus, Sweet Jesus, rescue me.


Cmaj7                    G
Gentle beauty filled the air around You.
   Cmaj7                     G
An Amber Glow surrounds Your face.
    Cmaj7                            Bm7
Ten thousand wing-ed Hosts rode on a moon beam,
    Cmaj7                             G
And as You softly spoke, I started to dream.


    Am                                  G
You said "Unlock the door and live life with Me.
 Am                          G 
Another wasted day is such a shame.
   Am                                 G
If you could see what I can see you'd surely hold the Key
   Cmaj7              Am7           G
To Life and Love: the reasons why I came".


repeat 3rd and 4th verses


         C                  Am7           G    
... Your Life and Love: the reasons why I came".
      C            C          Am7                G   
Sweet Jesus, Sweet Jesus, you heard me call your name (hold)

Am7    C    G

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Go With God, Scott...

It will be a blessing every time Amber Dream is performed by
a live band again - Your's perhaps?  Maybe it will cause someone,
somewhere - you? - to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior.  

Listen again to Amber Dream, please:

  https://www.dansher.com/audio/band/Amber_Dream.mp3

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