Chords for Johnny Cash - Jesus Was A Carpenter

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_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ 2,000 [F] years ago a man named Pontius Pilate [Bb] _ asked the question, _ what is [Ab] truth? _ _ _ _
As there [Gb] stood before him a young carpenter from Nazareth [F] called Jesus, who had come in
the name of [Bb] truth and of hope and [Cm] faith and love.
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And down through the centuries [Eb] men have searched for truth.
_ _ [Dm] If this Jesus came today, [Eb] _ _ [Gm] would he stand upon [C] the sands of California? _ _
Would he [F] walk the sweating _ blacktop in New York [Bb] and Mississippi? _ _
_ And would he be a vagrant and [Gb] turned away from the door?
_ [D] Let's hope not.
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_ _ _ Jesus was a carpenter and he worked with a saw [F] and a hammer [Bb] and his hands could form
a table _ true enough to [F] stand forever.
_ [Bb] And he might have spun [Eb] his life out [Bb] in the coolness [F] of the morning, [Bb] but he put aside
[Eb] his tools [Bb] and he walked the [Ebm] burning [Bb] highways and he built his house [Eb] from [C] people just like [Gm] these.
_ [F] _
_ _ [Bb] And he found them as they wandered [Eb] through the wild [F] Judean mountains.
_ [Bb] And he found them as they pulled their nets [Eb] up on the sea [F] of Galilee.
_ [Bb] And for a [Eb] thousand evenings [Bb] while the day _ [F] behind him emptied, [Bb] he walked among [Eb] the poor
_ [Bb] and he stopped to touch [Eb] the dying [Bb] and he built his house [Eb]
from [C] people just [Cm] like these.
_ [F] _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ It was on a shining Sunday when he rode to [F] old Jerusalem [Bb] and the palms they cast before
him [Eb] were like the crimes they [F] laid against him.
[Bb] It was on a [Eb] storming Friday _ [Bb] when he climbed the streets [F] to Calvary [Bb] and where he died [Eb] _ today
[Bb] Why they're selling [Eb] beads and _ postcards [Bb] and they tell us too that [C] that was long [Cm] _ ago.
_ [F] _ _ _ [Bb] _
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But would he stand today _ [Eb] upon the sands of [F] California _ [Bb] or walk the sweating blacktop [Eb] in
New [G] York and [F] Mississippi _ [Bb] where the mighty churches [Eb] _ rise [Bb] above the [F] screaming cities?
_ [Bb] Would he be a guest [Eb] on Sunday, [Bb] a vagrant on [Eb] a Monday _ [Bb] with the doors locked [Eb] tight against
his kind, you know?
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Oh, come again now, Jesus, _ be a carpenter _ [F] among us.
[Bb] There are chapels in our _ discontent, [Eb] _
cathedrals in [F] our sorrow.
_ [Bb] And we dwell in [Eb] golden [Bb] mansions with a sand for our [F] foundation _ [Bb] and the raging waters [Eb] _ rising
[Bb] and the _ thunders [Eb] all around us.
[Bb] Won't you come and build [Eb] a house [C] on rock [Gm]
again?
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_ _ _ Jesus was a carpenter _ [Eb] and he worked with a [F] saw and a hammer [Bb] and his hands could form a table.
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