Chords for Porter Wagoner - Brother Harold Dee (1971)

Here's a part of the show that I really enjoy the very most and of all the things that Porter's written
This happens to be my favorite listen very closely as he does brother Harold II
[C] _ _ _
_ [F] To a man and wife [C] three sons were born on the same day a bright Sunday morning _
Three boys with exactly the same chance in life
Their daddy was a wealthy man.
They'd know no hunger or strife
Their names were [F] Carol Gerald and Harold II [C] the years passed quickly it seemed for the three
Carol studied law with a bachelor's [G] degree and _
[C] He had read law books to a way in the night to be the world's greatest lawyer was his goal in life
[F] Gerald [C] studied numbers.
He's like a machine adding subtracting multiplying
Accounting was his dream
[G] _ But the books were [C] untouched by the last of the three
Just God's Holy Bible would interest Harold II
[F] But he had read it [C] and recited in the study for days without eating or sleeping
learning of God's ways
[G] While the [C] rest of the family would go to town, but Harold II would stay home and through the woods in the fields
He'd walk around
_ [F] While they [C] couldn't even get him to the barbershop
Several months passed and his folks told him this foolishness must stop
[Dm] That his hair was a [C] disgrace
Not to mention the beard that grew long on his face and his [G] reputation was hurting the family [C] name
the weird boy with the beard and the sandals and the bangs
[G] _ at last
He was told he must leave home
Unlike Carol and Gerald he had no business of his [F] own _
[C] six years passed
No one [G] knew where he went
_ _ _ _ Then the county [C] was told a
[G] Revival was a-coming in the world's biggest tent
_ White seemed the [D] whole county was there opening night.
Not one empty seat
When the missionary walked to the pulpit the crowd [C] rose to their feet
_ [G] They stared in shock and [Em] disbelief whispers went through the crowd
Why that looks [D] like Harold [G] II
The missionary held a closed Bible in his hands and spoke in a voice soft and kind
[C] And he recited the book of Genesis
_ Matthew Mark Luke and John and
[D] _ Revelations line at a time [G] it lasted for hours, but not one left their [Gm] seat
[Ab] God's power had [G] been given and delivered by brother Harold II
In the fourth row from the front set his mother and dad these two brothers and their wives
He looked at him and smiled and said
[Em] God bless you for coming tonight _
Let us pray
_ _ _ [C] _
God thank you for the great books
that give knowledge to men of
[F] _ science
fiction
[C] figures and laws of the land _
But most [G] of all thank you for the book of life
Eternally your holy Bible [C] that you taught every word to Harold II.
Amen _ _ _