Holy Roller Chords by Country Joe Mcdonald

a religious song.
It's called Holy Roller Roll One Time For Me. _ _ _
_ [C] And _ _ [E] you _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ [G#m] probably don't
know what a holy roller [N] is.
It's not a _ religious person rolling joints. _
_ _ _ But _ _ _ _ in America we have
some religious people that _ when they get a feeling, they go to church and they get the
feeling of God inside them, they start rolling around on the ground, you know, _ _ _ and talking
a language that no one except God understands _ _ _ very loudly, you know.
And they all do that
_ _ for a long time, maybe hours, a couple hours, I don't know.
_ Then after _ _ God _ _ leaves, then
they get back up and go back to work, you know.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D#]
But it became very fashionable to be
religious in [E] America about five years ago.
A lot of people [B] discovered _ _ all kinds of [E] gods.
_ This is a song about that.
[A] So here we go.
[E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I [F#m] used [E] to be known in [F#m] every bar [E] in town _
_ Hanging around on street corners [B] just trying to bum a dime _
[E] I guess that you might have called me [F#m] just another _ [E] drunken bum _
[A] But since I've found [E] _ religion, [B] a new life [E] has begun
And I sing, _ holy _ roller, [F#m] roll one [E] time for me
_ _ _ _ Holy _ [B] roller, roll one time for me
_ [E] _ _ _ [F#m] [E] Holy _ roller, [A] roll one [E] time for _ [F#m] me
Hallelujah, [E] my friends, [A] goodbye to [B] sin, religion has set [E] me free
_ _ _ _ _ _ I used to be strung out [F#m] on every kind of [E] drug
_ _ Hanging around pool [B] halls complaining about my luck
_ [E] And then I'd walk the streets at [F#m] night, stone most [E] out of my mind
_ [F#m] Since I've [E] found religion, [B] I just let my [E] holy light shine
And I sing, _ holy _ roller, [F#m] roll one [E] time for me _ _ _ _
Holy _ roller, [B] roll one time for me
_ [E] _ _ _
Holy _ roller, [A] roll one [E] time for me
_ [A] Hallelujah, [E] my [A] friends, goodbye [E] to [B] sin, religion has set [E] me free
A little heavenly guitar music, here we go. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ _ [A] _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Help me, [E] Jesus.
_ _ _ Thank _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
you.
[A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ Not bad.
Not bad.
But here comes the difficult part of this song.
I want you to do something Gerald Ford never could do.
That's two things at the same time.
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _
I want you to clap your hands and sing so you can start clapping now. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Don't _ _ _ stop. _ _ _ _ _
_ That's good.
Yeah.
There we go.
Okay.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen.
_ Holy _ roller, roll one time for me.
A little louder, folks.
_ Holy roller, roll one time for me. _ _
Holy _ roller, roll one time for me.
Hallelujah, my friends, goodbye to sin, [B] religion has set me [C#m] free. _
_ _ [E] _ Holy roller, [A]
roll one [E] time for me. _ _ _
Holy _ [B] roller, _ roll one time for me.
_ [E] _ _ Holy roller, _ [F#m] roll one [E] time for me.
[A] Hallelujah, [E] my friends, [A] goodbye [E] to [B] sin, religion has set [E] me free. _ _
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ My hair was dirty and [A] my clothes were [E] never clean.
_ _ My mind was filthy, [B]
my language was obscene.
_ [E] _
I used to expose myself [A] to people out [E] on the streets.
_ [F#m] But now when I feel [E] the urge [B] to sing, I fall down on [E] my knees and I sing. _ _ _
Holy roller, [F#m] _ roll one [E] time for me. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G#m] _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ [A] Hallelujah [E] my friends, goodbye to the [A] sin.
On slow [E] white wings [A] in the [E] choir I'll sing.
[A] And the heavenly host ain't no [B] joke.
Cause religion has set [E] me free.
Goddamn.
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _
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