Chords for Paul Thorn: Mission Temple Fireworks Stand

[C] Before I do this last song, I want to go down memory lane to when I was three [F] years old. _
_ [Cm] [Fm] My father was a churchy guy preacher.
He'd take me with him all over the state of Mississippi, doing revivals in various churches.
And [Cm] every night before my daddy would preach, he would pick my [C] tiny body up.
[F] He'd stand me up [Eb] on top of the altar and he'd say,
Paul [F] Wayne, sing a song before I preach tonight, boy.
I'd [Cm] sing songs [F] like I'll Fly Away and I Saw the [Eb] Light.
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[Cm] That's where I got my musical training.
[C] Without those precious memories, I wouldn't be here tonight.
[Eb] [F] Most of [C] the revivals we did was held [G] in regular churches with solid wall structures.
But [Fm] every once in a while, we did something called a tent revival.
Have y'all [Eb] ever heard of a tent revival?
[C] _ _ That was my favorite type of revival as a child.
So now that I'm a grown man, every time I see a tent on the side of the road,
I ask myself, I say, Paul, is this a tent [F] revival [C] or a fireworks stand?
[F] [Cm] Because [C] they used the same kind of tent in 2006 for both activities.
_ So I made up a song about a black preacher who quits his church
and he starts selling firecrackers on the side of the road.
_ _ He still loves the Lord and he wants to tell people about Jesus,
but he does it at the Mission Temple fireworks stand.
How many of y'all tonight wants to have an old-fashioned revival?
Up here on this shit tonight.
I do believe that the spirit of the Lord can fall down
if some of you would just get off your ass and come on up here and dance
and have a good time and lift [B] up the name of the Holy [C] Spirit tonight.
Oh, [F] oh, oh. _
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[C] _ I saw a black man with a Bible and a sparkler in his hand.
He was holding a tent revival [G] and running up by the wood stand.
[C] Said to him, the world is coming, so [F] you better get on your knees.
[C] Today, Bible rockets, two for [G] one, but [Cm] salvation is late.
_ [C] _ Said, I quit my job at a big church where the milk and money flowed.
Two-step cherry blossom Jesus in a [G] tent beside the road.
[C] I ain't in it for the money or most [F] costs, but I don't mind.
Come on, [C] then.
They rent on New [G] Year's and the 4th [C] of July.
Big laughs, holy ghost, _ big bank _ theory, _ _ Pentecostal,
the fire and crystal, Mission Temple [G] [C] fireworks stand. _
_ He said, fireworks are dangerous.
They can blow up in your face, so you better read this church
and light [G] a fuse and get away.
[C] These banks were made in China, [F] so it's easy to see
[C] how a man who worships Buddha [G] ain't got no [C] guarantee.
This is holy ghost, _ big bank _ theory, _ _ Pentecostal,
the fire and crystal, _ Mission Temple [Gm]
fireworks [C] stand.
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[Bb] _ [G] _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ [F] said, everything I'm selling is all going [Eb] up in smoke.
[E] This [F] world is like an atom [C] bomb, it's ready to explode.
[F] When trouble sounds and love comes back, I promise you one thing,
[Gb] I'll be [G] a human bottle rocket and I'll go out with a bang.
I need [C] this holy _ ghost, big bank _ theory, _ _ Pentecostal,
_ the fire and crystal, Mission [G] Temple [C] fireworks stand.
Yeah, I need this holy ghost, _ big bank theory, _ _ Pentecostal,
the fire and crystal, _ _ Mission [G] Temple fireworks [C] stand. _
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_ _ _ _ _ Yo, Ken Ham on the bass guitar.
Kevin Perkins on the drums.
Stu Harris on the lead guitar.
[Cm] Jack O'Reilly on the keyboard.
Paul Vaughn [C] doing what he can.
Good night, everybody.
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