Chords for Buffy Sainte-Marie - God is Alive, Magick is Afoot

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_ _ [G] God is [C] alive, _ magic is afoot.
_ God is alive, magic is afoot.
God is afoot, magic is alive.
Alive is afoot.
_ _ _ Magic never died.
_ [F] _ _ _ God never sickened.
Many poor men lied.
Many sick men lied.
Magic never weakened.
Magic never hid.
Magic always ruled.
God is afoot.
[C] God never died.
_ _ _ [Em] _ God was ruler, though his funeral [F] lengthened.
Though his mourners thickened.
Magic never fled.
Though his shrouds were hoisted, the naked God did [Dm] live.
Though his words were twisted, the naked magic thrived.
Though his death was published round and round the world.
[F] The heart did not believe.
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Many hurt men wondered.
[Em] Many struck men bled. _
[Dm] Magic never faltered.
Magic always led.
Many stones were rolled, but God would not lie [Bbm] down.
Many wild men lied.
Many fat men listened.
[D] Though [G] they offered stones, magic still was fed.
[F] Though they [C] locked their coffers, God was always [G] served.
[F] _ Magic is afoot.
God rules.
Life is afoot.
Life is in command.
Many weak men hungered.
Many strong men thrived.
_ [C] Though they boasted solitude, [G] God was at their [F] side.
Nor the dreamer in his cell, nor the captain on the hill.
Magic is alive.
Though his death was pardoned round and round the world.
The heart would not [C] _
believe.
_ _ [F] Though laws were carved in marble, they could not shelter men.
[Dm] Though altars built in parliaments, they could not order men.
[Bb] Police arrested magic, and magic went with them.
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For magic [F] loves the hungry. _ _
_ [Dm] But magic would not tarry.
It moves from arm to arm.
[Bb] It would not stay with them.
[G] _ Magic is afoot.
It cannot come to harm.
It rests in an empty palm.
It spawns in an empty mind.
But magic is no instrument.
[C] Magic is the end. _ _
Many men drove magic, but magic stayed behind.
[Am] Many strong men lied.
They only passed through magic and out the other side.
[Dm] Many weak men lied.
They came to God in secret.
And though they left him nourished, they would not tell who healed.
[Bb] Though mountains dashed before them, they said that God was dead.
[G] Though his shrouds were hoisted, the naked God did [Dm] live.
This I mean to whisper to my mind.
This I mean to laugh within my mind.
This I mean, my mind, to serve till service is but magic.
Moving through the world and mind itself is magic.
Horsing through the flesh and flesh itself is magic.
Dancing on a clock and time itself, the magic length of [C] God.
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