Chords for Crowder // Ain't No Grave // New Song Cafe

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[A] _ _ _ _ [E] 08.00.0 Welcome to the Newsong Cafe at [A] worshiptogether.com. Today we're here with [E] Crowder and he'll be sharing his song Ain't No [B] Grave. So sit back and enjoy this Newsong [G#] Cafe. 08.00.0 David, good to see you man. Pleasure, good to be here. 08.00.0 Why don't you introduce these fine fellows here. Absolutely, this here is Seth Philpott, one of my best friends on the planet, Hank Bentley. 08.00.0 _ _ _ _ We're just thrilled to have you guys here. We're about to throw down a little bit [G] here. It looks like, something's about to happen. 08.00.0 Something's about to happen. Man, this song called Ain't No Grave, this is such an incredible song. It's a great lyric. It sounds like it might have been written 50 years ago. You know, it's one of those timeless kind of lyrics and melodies. Talk about this song. I know you and Seth worked on this and some of the writing on it. 08.00.0 Yeah, actually this thing started with Hank Bentley as far as I can tell. [N] We were out on the road together. Hank plays with me and Kenny plays with me and Seth's played with me. But me and Seth and Hank and Kenny are on the road and for some reason there was about a three day stretch where Hank wouldn't take that thing off. It's called a bazooki, is what it's called, which is fun to say. He just wouldn't take it off. He was walking around and there was this little spurt of songwriting that happened. One of the songs that came out of his little venture there would be this one right here. I loved it. He had a little hum of a thing going on and one lyric that was that Ain't No Grave gonna hold me down thing. _ For me, this is like the best Easter song ever is what I thought immediately. I love Easter. Easter is one of my favorite holidays in the whole year just because it's so defiant. You've just come out of Good Friday when death thinks it's won and then you get to stand in resurrection and put your fist to the air. Moments of music for me on Easter are some of my favorite memories ever. This is one of those songs that you've been around a lot. A lot of songwriters are sat in seats like this talking on deals. But this is one of those special deals where I remember we're in the bus and this thing's happening in front of us and a line would come out of somebody. I was running around the place. I would just be like, oh my goodness, that thing is thick right there. Angels humming, can you hear the sound? I'm going, oh I think I can, I think I can. This is great. This is one of my favorite times of writing music ever. It was real special. This is going to be amazing. I want you guys to play it for us. Wow, there's some pressure. _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Ain't no grave gonna hold me down. Ain't [C#m] no grave gonna hold [A] me down. And _ _ _ _ I will _ _ rise. [Em] _ _ I [A] will _ rise. [E] I will _ rise. _ [A] Troubles [E] come for everyone. [A] Death has [E] no respect for [C#m] love. Roll that stone, [A] I won't [E] be found. Ain't no grave gonna hold me down. Whoa, [A] _ _ _ _ [C#m] whoa, [B] _ _ _ [A] _ whoa. _ [C#m] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Wow, [N] cool sounds, train included. I love that. Well man, walk us through what you're playing. So you're capoed up, but you tune down. Yeah, so this is in E, so pretend you don't have [E] this thing here. So anyway, so I'm playing the E up here, whatever you call that guy that people are prone to play. E5, that's what I call it too, maybe. _ And so it's got that [A] to the four, [E] so. _ [A] _ [E] So it's kind of going back and forth. _ _ [A] _ [E] But that's just one and four. [B] And then a five, [C#] [A] six, four is what happens. [Em] _ _ [C#m] _ [B] _ The interesting part about this song is you can't, like charting it is going to be [E] _ _ tedious and a bit cumbersome. And so it's more about the feel of it. If you just listen and kind of feel it out, it's probably a little easier. Even looking at it on paper, it looks daunting. But it's one of those tunes that follows the melody and the lyric rather than having it so structured. So it's just. _ _ So it feels like it turns back over there. _ _ [A] Now, so you've got some [E] interesting bars. _ _ I played it right. So, you know, more listening than you can use your ear and it'll make it easier. You can count, but I'm no math doctor, so it gets complicated if I try to do that thing. [N] And the chorus was? The chorus, it's just four. [A] _ _ _ [E] So it's [B] just four, one, [A] five. And it repeats it. [E] _ _ So that's my B, I mean, that's the five there. And I'm just leaving these two guys doing pedal tones the whole time. _ _ _ So I never even move those. [G] And then it goes to the trouble. [A] _ So [G#] _ [A] _ that's four, [E] one over [B] three, five. [A] _ [E] Trouble comes, [B] and [A] I don't [E] know where [B] that trouble [C#m] comes from. Six, [A] no, I [E] won't be found. So six, four, one. One, [A] I [E] won't be found. [B] Five, ain't no [A] five gonna hold me down. Yeah, so that's. _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ [B] _ _ Awesome, [E] man. Thanks for coming by, guys, and sharing with us. Absolutely. _ [A] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _