Chords for "I'm Still Here"- Albertina Walker (Remarks by Delores "Honey" Sykes)

[F] The one and only [Bb] Sister _ _ Albertina _ [E] Walker.
_ [Dm] I was gonna [Bb] say a lot about her.
_ Some things that she [E] probably don't even remember.
_ [Bb] Sister Regina Mosley is here somewhere,
but it's been a while ago that Shirley Caesar
[G] ran to me at the Met Theater in [Eb] Philadelphia
[B] and told me that Miss [Cm] Ward, [B] Clara, and Gertrude
wanted to [E] see me at the piano.
And that's the night that the Ward singers
[Bb] hired me to sing.
Shirley Caesar came and told me
they wanna see you right now.
[C] And I never will forget when we were leaving the Met,
Tina probably has forgotten.
[Ebm] She said, [Bb] baby, she said, you better go on back home
to Chicago, because once that [Fm] hair falls off your head,
[Eb] they gonna fine you and [Bb] you gonna have to pay
[Fm] all your [Eb] money for the fines.
Because [Bb] at that time, the Ward singers wore their hair
stacked [Ebm] way high, [Bb] way up here.
She said, you go [Eb] home, baby.
She said, [Bb] you _ don't need to sing with them,
because your hair is gonna fall [Eb] off your head.
I won't [Cm] forget that.
[Bb] This is somebody's cook.
You talking about [E] can cook.
[Ab] We've ate a many meal at her [Bb] house.
The soul stirs, the mighty clouds of joy,
all of us together, eating out the same pot.
She's been the same down through the [Eb] years.
Give [Bb] it to her, Albertina Walker. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [Bb] _ Thank you, Pastor.
_ [Eb] _ _
_ _ [Gm] [A] You know, [Bb] _ _ [N]
it's good to be here.
_ I'm thanking and praising God for life, health, and strength,
not a portion of it.
_ _ I said, not a portion of it.
_ _ I'm thanking God for life, health, _ _ and strength.
The Lord's been so good to me.
_ And I just can't tell it all, but I just want you to [Bb] know
_ [F] that I have, I can find no fault in God.
_ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ _ [Bb] Now, I found fault in myself,
_ but I can't [A] find [Eb] none in Him.
[Bb] _ And [N] He's just been so good to me
in spite of all of my faults and failures,
my ups and downs and turnarounds, _ I'm [Bb] still here.
_ _ You know, I haven't, I'm not gonna stand here
and tell you that folk have [Cm] always done [Bb] things to me.
[Gb] _ [C] Amen.
_ [Gm]
I've [Am] done things to folk, too.
[D] _ [Gm] _
Amen. [Bb] Amen.
I did some lying on folk.
[A] _ [Bb] I did some backbiting. _ _
Oh yeah, I've done all that.
Same thing that you, you know, we say folk have done to us.
I've [Gm] done some of them same things myself,
_ [F] _ [Bb] but I'm still [Eb] here. _
[Bb] And the Lord gave me a chance.
He gave me another chance.
_ He gave me another chance.
_ [G] Through all of that old [Ebm] nasty, mean [Ab] stuff,
[Eb] I used to do, He [Bb] threw it [Gm] in the sea of forgetfulness
_ and gave me another chance.
[F]
I'm still here.
_ [Gm] I say, He gave me another [Dm] chance, _ [Fm] and I'm still [Bb] here.
And I'm thanking and [Eb] praising Him for it right now.
[Bb] I say, [Eb] I'm thanking _ [Bb] and praising God _
[N] because I'm still [F] here _ and I'm kept by [Bb] His blood.
_ [B] _ _ _ [Bb] Oh Lord, [F] [Bb] I'm still _ here.
[Cm] _ [F] _ _ [Gm] _ [F] [Bb] I'm still _ _ here.
_ _ [Eb] _ [Fm] [Eb] I made it, _ [Bb] _ made [Gm] it [Bm] through.
[Bb] _ So, so have [F] you. _
[Bbm] [Bb] I've come through the [Gm] fire.
Come through [F] the fire.
And I've come [Bb] through the flood.
Come through [Cm] the flood.
_ [Bb] But I'm [Eb] still [Bb] here.
I'm still _ here. _
I'm kept [F] _ [Bb] by [F] _ [Bb] His blood.
_ _ [Eb] _ [Bb] [Eb] Now, _
[Bb] _ the [F] enemy tried _ to _ [Bb] _ _ _ drown _ me,
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb]
flooding my [Gm] life _ _ [E] with so [F] much _ misery,
[Bb] _ [Gb] _ _
[Bb] _ but [F] God wouldn't let it.
[Bb] _ He _ wouldn't let [Eb] it take me [Bb] down.
[Eb] _ [Bb] He _ rescued me [F] _ to _ [Bb] _
[F] higher [Bb] ground.
_ _ _ [Eb]
[Bb] Now that [Eb] same [Bb] old lowdown [F] enemy _
_ tried so [Cm] [Bb] hard to destroy me.
_ _ [Cm] _ [Bb] _
He was _ firing darts _ that [E] I could not [F] see.
_ [D] _
[C] [D] But let [Bb] me tell you, [F] God wouldn't let it.
_ _ [Bb] He wouldn't let it [Eb] _
take me [Bb] down.
[Eb] _ [Bb] He sent His angels.
He sent His [C] angels [Bb]
and they [F] would [Bb] count [Eb] all [Bb] around.
_ [Eb] _
[Bb] I'm _ _ _ still [F] here.
_ _ I'm [Bb] still here. _
Thank you, thank you.
I made it.
[Eb] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] Hey, [F] so have you.
_ [D] _
[Em] [Gb] Come through [Gm] the fire.
_ [F] _ _
I've come through [Cm] the [Bb] flood.
_ _ [Eb] But _ [Bb] I'm still [Eb] [Bb] here. _ _
_ Oh yes, I [E] am.
Thank you, [F] Jesus.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Now that same old enemy [F] tried _ so hard [Bb] to devour me,
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ [Bb] clouding my [Gm] way _ [Bb]
[C] so I [F] could not [D] see.
[G] _
[Bb] But let me tell you, [F] _ God wouldn't let it.
[Bb] _ He wouldn't [Eb] let it [Bb] take me [Eb] down.
[Bb] _ He sent some more angels.
[F] He [Bb] sent some more [F] angels and they would [Bb] count. _ _ _ _ _ _
Hey, _ I'm still here.
[F] _
I'm [Bb] still here. _ _ _
I [Fm] made it.
I [Eb] _ _
[Bb] made it.
You made it.
You made [C] it.
Hey, [Dm] _ _ [Gm] _ [D] _ [G] [Gb] through [Gm] the fire.
_ _ [F] _ Thank you, my [Eb] soul.
_ [Bb] _ I've been through [Eb] the, _ _ [Gm] but I'm [Bb] still here.
_ _ I'm [Cm] still [Bb] here.
Yes, I am, _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Ebm] _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ but I'm still [Ebm] [Bb] here. _
Some time off, [Ebm] _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ but I'm still [Cm] here.
[Bb] _ [Ebm] _
[Bb] I'm still here.
God, [C] [Bb] thank you.
[C] _ [Bb] _ You Jesus.
I'm [C] still [Bb] here.
Yeah.
_ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _ _ [Gm] _ [F] _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _