Chords for Helen's Testimony

_ _ _ _ _ Hallelujah. _
_ _ [F#m] Hallelujah. _ _ _ _
You
know, when I think about it,
[Em] I started in church [B]
as a
little girl, 7 years old [F#m] and
grandmother used to take me to
church back in Tulsa, Oklahoma
and I used to sing for the
[Em] lord and [Bm] I used to sing in the
adult choir [D] and I love the
lord with all my heart.
By the
time I was [G] 9 years old, I was
gung ho and my grandmother
even said to [F#m] me one day, she
said, you know, baby, god's
going to use you one day _ [B] and I
didn't know what she meant _ but
I knew I [F#m] liked the sound of
god using me.
_ _ [B] By the time I
was 11 years old, my [F#m] mother
and father and my [A] five brothers
and my little sister, we moved
[B] from Tulsa to California.
My
dad's job [F#m] has transferred him
out of here and by the time I
was 12 years old, [B] I found
myself in the [Em] nightclubs in
Los Angeles. _
[F#m] _ My mom and dad
used to go to the clubs on the
weekends.
[Bm] They didn't know the
lord Jesus and grandma wasn't
around [E] anymore so we just
quit going to church.
_ _ I was [D] in
the nightclubs at 12 years old
and that was the worst place
and the last place I needed to
be _ but [Bm] I had a praying
grandmother.
[Em] _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ By [Bm] the time I was
13 years old, I had recorded [Em] my
first single and [F#m] began to open
up for people like Stevie
Wonder and Aretha Franklin,
B.B. [Em] King, and Bill Cosby and
[B] I remember opening up for him
and I was in the nightclub one
time and [F#m] things began to
[F#] happen.
Hallelujah.
_ _ _ [Em] Things
began to happen all
around me.
_ The devil [F#m] had a
trap set. _
_ _ He [Em] was going to set
me up because see I liked it.
I liked the money.
I [B] was making
a lot of [F#] money and I liked the
[E] glamour and I liked [G] the
applause because that [D] said I
love you.
_ We all [Em] want to
be loved.
_ _ _ _ _ [F#m] Hallelujah.
_ _ _ I didn't
know _ [Em] that _ Jesus loved me.
_ _ [F#m] I
didn't know it then.
When I
was 16 years old, [C] I had had
a baby out of [F#] wedlock and
[Bm] by the time I was 17 years old,
I [F#m] left home and joined [E] the
cast of hair and I began to
travel [B] all across the country.
_ [E] _ _ I was making more money [F#] than
my mom and dad put together by
then and things were looking
pretty good.
[E]
Then I was
introduced to marijuana. _ _ _
Devil
had a trap [F#] set.
_ _ Next thing [Em] I
know, it was pills pills to
get up in [D] the morning and [E] pills
to go to bed at night.
_ Then it
was the alcohol [G] and then I
became very promiscuous and _ _
ran [B] around with a lot of people
I had no business being [Em] with. _
[E] One day, I was introduced to
cocaine and I know [F#] that all
drugs are a spirit _ [Bm]
but this
cocaine became my best friend
_ [F#m]
and I began to hang [C#] out with
the devil and I did everything
[Bm] that I was big and bad enough
to do.
_ _ _ I'm not [E] glorifying him.
I'm just letting him know that
I [G] don't belong to [Em] you. _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ Hallelujah.
_ _ _ I've been
set free.
[Em] _
_ _ _ _ _ Hallelujah. _
Glory [F#m] to God. _ _ _ _
I [E] went on for
about 12 [Bm] years of my life and I
traveled with people and I
worked with [F#m] Shaka Khan and
Rufus and I worked with
Captain Nittany [F#] and all the
people in the studios [Bm] and I was
good at my job and I was quick
and I could [Em] demand double,
triple scale and I went to work
and I was high every day.
_ _ The devil was [F#m] trying to kill
me but I had a [Em] prayer in my
mouth.
Never turn my back on
[F#m] you. _ Hallelujah. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
One time [F#m] when I was in Houston,
Texas, I met [C#] a man there and I
was getting ready to go on the
[B] road with Shaka Khan and there
was a group [Em] going on the road
with us, Heat Wave, and [C#] they
had a man working with [F#] them and
he was doing their lights and
[E] he, I didn't know this but I
met him on the road and he was
a nice guy [F#m] and you never [Em] would
know it to look at him but he
was also, not only was a light
director but he was a cocaine
dealer. _
[F#m] See, devil knows how to
really [C#m] do it.
_ So, we began [Bm] to
be friends and we began to [B] date
and and you know, I began to
get [F#m] all the cocaine I wanted [F#] for
free.
How many of you know it
wasn't for [D] free?
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ [C#m] But we came
home, me and this [Bm] young man and
we began to live [G] together and
he _ was [Em] still selling drugs and I
began to make drops for him.
I
was dropping off [Am] cocaine and
making a lot of [D#] foolish turns
in my [B] life and my life began to
do this spiral, [D] _ downward [Am] spiral.
[Bm] I was going to hell.
[D] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ One night
as I was getting [A] loaded, I
[G] began to pass out.
_ _ Then my [B] head
hit the wall.
And I began to
slide down the wall and as I
came to, _ all of my bodily
fluids were doing their own
thing and I was [F#m] dying.
But I had
a praying grandmother [F#m] _ [Em] and I knew
enough to call on the name of
Jesus. _ _
_ Hallelujah.
_ _ _ [E] _ _
It wasn't a
couple of days later that I was
watching Christian [F#m] television
and [C#m] grandma tells me she was
laying on her face during this
time and she had been fasting
for [D] 2 weeks and just calling on
the name of Jesus. _ _
Save [Em] my
granddaughter.
[F#m] _ _ _
Save my
granddaughter, [Em] Jesus. _ _ _ _
I watched
Christian TV [F#m] one night and it
was if God himself said that's
enough [F#] and he rebuked the devil
from me long [Bm] enough [F#] for me to
make [E] an intelligent decision.
[F#] I
said, Jesus, _ _ [D#] I know you're real.
[E] _
_ _ _ [G] If you'll just [F#m] take all of this
away from me.
Take [A] all of the
drugs.
Take them away.
I'm
tired.
[D] _ _
[Bm] _ And I [G] want you to know
that instantly [F#m] I was set free.
_ Instantly I was delivered.
Hallelujah.
[Bm] _
Glory.
_ Hallelujah.
[F#m] _ _ _
[F#] Hallelujah.
_ _ [Bm] This was on a
Friday night. _
_ And I want you to
know that not only did God [F#m] save
and deliver me and set me free
but he saved that [N] drug dealer
and he's my husband tonight,
[Bm] James Taylor.
_ _ Hallelujah.
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _