Chords for He's Alive

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_ _ _ The [Am] gates and doors were barred and all the [G] windows fastened [A] down.
I spent the night in sleeplessness and jumped at every [A] sound.
[D] Half in hopeless sorrow and [G] half in fear that [A] day would [E] find the soldiers breaking through
and [G] drag us all [A] away.
_ _ Just before the sunrise I [G] heard something at the [Am] wall.
The gate began to rattle and [G] a voice began to [Am] call.
[Dm] I hurried to the window, [G] looked down into the [Am] street, expecting swords and torches and
[G] the sound of [A] soldiers' feet. _
But there was no one there but Mary, so I [G] went down to let [Am] her in.
And John stood there beside me as [G] she told us where [Am] she had been.
[A] They moved him in the [Dm] night [G] and none of us [Am] knows where.
The stone's been lowed away and [G] now his body [A] isn't there.
The stone's been [Am] blown away.
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[E] We both ran toward the garden, [G] then John [Am] ran on ahead.
We found the stone in the empty [G] tomb just the way that [Am] Mary said.
[Dm] But the winding sheet they wrapped him in [G] was just an [A] empty shell.
And how or where they had taken [G] him was more [A] than I could tell.
_ [Am] _ _ _ Something strange had happened [G] there, just what I [Am] did not know.
John believed the miracle, [G] but I just [A] turned to go.
[Dm] Circumstance and speculation [G] couldn't lift me [A] very high.
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I had seen him [G] crucify him and I saw him die.
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Back inside the house [G] again, the guilt and anguish [Am] came.
Everything I had promised him just [G] added to my shame.
[Dm] When at last it came to choice, I had [G] denied I knew his [Am] name.
And even if he were alive, I know it wouldn't be the same. _
_ _ _ _ _ Suddenly, the air was [G] filled with strange sweet [Am] perfume.
Light that came from [G] everywhere drove shadows from the room.
[Dm] And Jesus stood before me [G] with his arms held [Am] open wide.
I fell down on my knees [G] and I clung to [E] him and cried. _ _
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He raised me to my feet and [G] as I looked [Am] into his eyes,
love was shining out from [G] him like sunlight [Am] from the skies.
[Dm] Guilt and my confusion [G] disappeared in [Am] sweet release.
And every [A] fear I'd ever [G] had just _ [Am]
melted _ _ into me. _
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_ [D] _ _ _ [A] He's alive.
[C] He's alive.
_ [G] He's alive and I'm forgiven.
[D] Heaven's gates are open wide.
[A] He's alive. _
[C] He's alive.
_ [G] He's alive and I'm forgiven.
[D] Heaven's gates are open wide.
[A] He's alive. _
[C] He's alive.
_ [G] He's alive. _ _
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