Chords for I Know That My Redeemer Lives by Bob Bennett - 6/2/2012

_ _ _ Anyway, [Eb] alright, [Eb] _
that was a perfectly horrible introduction to what I'm about [E] to just do.
_ [Gm] _ This is a song that I [G] first heard in an Easter sunrise service in 1977.
I was born and raised in a Catholic church, [Bb] and unlike a lot of Protestant,
Protestant-y type guys, I'm not going to badmouth that for a second.
I was so grateful to have all that background.
I had my sort of [Db] teenage estrangement from all of that, [N] and then when I got serious about reading
Good News for Modern Man and the New Testament and realizing that most of [Eb] my beef with religion
had to do with [Bb] the folly of humans and less to do with the gospel of Jesus,
then I [E] found a sort of an entry point back in.
So, [Cm] in the spring of [Eb] 1977, _ [Gm]
I was attending a Calvary Chapel church,
and they were singing all of the worship [Ab] choruses and things that you would have expected from [Bb] that era.
But the guy who was leading worship that Sunday morning,
while we were all freezing in Jesus' name, sitting at the college football stadium,
[Bb] the worship leader had a Lutheran background, [Cm] and so out of his [Ab] Lutheran back pocket,
he pulled this song, [Bbm] _ [Eb] and I fell in love with it.
So I arranged it a little bit for a guitar and did something a little cheeky that I [G] might not even do now.
I cut and pasted halves of the [Bb] gazillion verses that I liked the best and sort of [Eb] welded it all together as this.
[C] _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] I know that [Abm] my _ [Eb] _
_ [Bb] Redeemer _ lives
What [Ab] comfort _ [Eb] this sweet sentence [Bb] _ gives
_ He lives, [Eb] He lives, who [Cm] once was dead
He lives, [Eb] my ever _ _
[Bb]-living [Gm] Head
_ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
[Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Abm] _ _ _
[F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ This _
[Eb] triumphant _ from [Bb] the grave
He [Ab] lives, _ [Eb] _
eternally to [Bb] save
_ He [Eb] lives, my _ _ [Ab] enchanted _
[Bb] prayer
_ He lives to keep [Eb] _ me [Cm] safely _ [Ab] there
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ _
Lives and [Abm] grants [Eb] me daily [Bb] bread
_ He [Ab] lives and I [Eb] shall conquer _ [Bb] death _
[Eb] He lives and while He [Cm] lives I [Bb] will sing
He [Eb] lives, my [Abm] prophet, _ [Bb] Christ [Cm] and King
_ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ Lives all glory [Ab]
to _ [A] His _ [E] name
[Ab]
He lives, my _ [B] Jesus, _ still [Bb] the _ same
Though the [Eb] sweet joy [Cm] this _ [Bb] sentence gives
_ I know that my _ _ Redeemer _ [Gm]
lives
[Ab] I _ [Eb] know that my _ [Bb] _ Redeemer [Eb] _ _
lives _ _ _ _ _ _ _