Chords for Etta James - God's Song

[Bbm] _ _ He _ _ _ _ _ came to Abel, [Ab] _ [Bbm] Seth knew not why, [Ebm] for if the children of [Bb] Israel [Bbm] were to multiply, _ [F] why
must [Bbm] any of the children, [Ab] why [Gb] must they die?
[F] So he asked the Lord, and the [F] Lord said, [Bbm] _ man [F] means [Bbm] nothing, [F] he [Bbm] means less to me [Ebm] than [Bb] the
lowest cactus [Ebm] flower [Bb] on the [Ebm] humblest yucca [E] tree.
[F] And [Fm] he [F] chases around [A] the desert, [Bbm] [Ab] cause he thinks that's [Gb] where I'll be, and [F] that's why I [Bbm] love mankind.
[Fm] _
[Bbm] _ I [F] recoil in [Bbm] horror [F] from the [Db] foulness of [Gb] thee, _ [Bb] all from the squalor, [Gb] and [Bb] the filth, and [Ebm] the
[F] misery.
How [Fm] we laugh up [Bbm] here [Bb] in [Ab] heaven at the [Gb] prayers you offer [Dbm] me, [F] and that's why I love [Bbm] mankind. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ The Christian and the Jews were having a jamboree, yeah.
[Ebm] The Buddhists and the Hindus, [Bbm] the Buddhists and the Hindus joined in on satellite [F] TV.
_ It is Greece, [Fm] [Bbm] and they [Ab] begin to speak, [Gb] and they [Fm] _ [Bbm] _ _ _
_ manifest free.
[Ebm] The temple built to you, [Bbm] have tumbled down, fell into the sea.
[F] _ _ _ _
[Bbm] [Ab] Peace, the [Gb] _ _ [F] Lord said, _
_ [Fm] _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [F] _ _
[Bbm] _ [F] [Bbm] must be.
[Gb] _ [Bbm] [Bb] Your children, [Gb] and say [Bb] how [Ebm] blessed are we.
_ [F] Now you all must be crazy, [Bbm]
to [Ab] put your [Gb] family in there, [F] and that's why I love [Bbm] mankind.
[Gb] You really [Fm] need _ _ [F] _ _
[Bbm] _ _ mankind. _ _ _ _