Chords for Benny Berry - Old Gideon Bible with Lyrics

[G#] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [F] _ _
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_ _ He [C] was _
_ [G] 21 [C] and staring _ in [F] the mirror _ [C] on the _ _ _ _ [F] wall
Alone in a room [C] where he would soon try to end [G] it _ all
_ [C] But lying [G] on [C] the table _ [Dm] _ [C] _ [F] right by the _ [Em] telephone _ _
Was [F] the light that shines [C] like a beacon [Am] _
for [C] a lost [G] soul to [F] come _ home
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ Just [G] an old [C] Gideon Bible _ _ [F] in a little _
_ [C] roadside inn _
And he [F] cried when he read of [C] Mount _ Calvary _ how Jesus died [G] for him _ _
[C] The pages [G] were worn [C] and tattered _ and [F] the binding was cracked [C] with _ age
[F] But there in that old [C] Gideon Bible [Am] _ _
[C] he found [G] God's [F] saving _ _ grace _
_ Now [A] _ _ _
[D] _ World [A] War II [D] would fend _ _ [G] off _ in a [D] foreign _ land _ _
[G] _ Fighting the war [D] with a hundred _ boys who were under _ his [A] command _ _ _
[D] One day in [A] the heat [D] of battle _ he [G] was hit by a bullet [F#m] they say _ _
[G] Why he didn't die [D] was a _ _ [Bm] miracle, [D] cause something [A] had in [G] the _ way _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] [G] It [D] was just [A] that old [D] Gideon Bible _ from [G] a _ little _ [D]
roadside inn _ _
[G] That he _ always carried [D] with him for a lost soul he [A] might win
_ _ [Em]
[D] The pages [A] were worn [D] and tattered _ _ [G] and the binding was cracked [D] with _ _ age
[G] But there in that old Gideon [D] _ Bible [Bm] _ _ [D]
he found [A] God's _ [G] saving _ _ grace _
_ Well _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [G] he turned [C] 81 this morning, _ _ _
[F] _ _ yet claiming the [C] victory _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ Most all his friends [C] surrounded him _ _ _ and they were sad to see him leave _
[G] _ _ [C] _ [G] But he [C] was smiling [G] _ like [C] a school boy _ [F] all dressed in his Sunday [Em] _ _ _ best
He [F] was off to see [C] his Savior [Am] _ _
[C] and holding [G] _ on [F] his _ _ _ _ chest
_ _ [A] _ It [D] was just [A] that old [D] Gideon Bible _ _ [G] from a _ little _ [D] roadside inn
_ Where [G] he read of the cross and [D] Mount _ Calvary _ how Jesus _ died [A] for him
_ The [D] _ pages [A] were worn [D] and tattered _ _ [G] and the binding was cracked [D] with _ _ age
[G] But there in that old [D] Gideon [F#m] Bible [Bm] _ _
[D] he found [A] God's [D] saving _ _ _ grace
[G] How he loved that old [D] Gideon Bible [Bm] _ _
[D] and _ God's [A] _
[G] amazing _ grace _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ [G] _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _
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