Chords for Reverend Gary Davis - I Heard the Angels Singing

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_ [C] One [Em] day I [C] was a [Em]-walkin' along, [C] _ [G] I heard [D] angels [B] _ [Em] singin',
_ [C] _ [Em] I heard a [C] voice that I never saw [Em] no one, [C] _ [Em] I heard [A] [B] angels _ [Em] _
[C] singin'.
[G] What you're [C] hangin' inside [Em] to me, [C] _ [B] I heard angels _ _ [Em] _
[C] singin'.
The sins [Em] they've forgiven [C] in my [Em] soul, I _ [C] _ [Em] heard [B] angels _ _ [Em]
singin'.
Went down in the valley one [C] day just to [Em] pray, _ [C] _ [B] I heard angels _ [Em] _
[C] singin'.
I met [Em] this old devil [C] comin' down on [Em] my way, _ [C] _ [Em] I heard [D] angels [B] _ _ [Em]
singin'.
[C] What you [Em] reckon that old [C] devil _ [Em]
said, [C] _ [G] I heard [B] angels [Em] singin'.
_ Heaven's doors are closed, you might as well go [C] back, it's too late [Em] for you to pray, [C] _ [Em] I heard [B] angels _ [Em]
singin'.
[C] I said, get back, [Em] Satan, stand [C] back out of my [Em] way, _ [C] I [Em] heard [B] angels _ [Em] singin'.
[C] I just don't [Em] wanna hear another [C] word you [Em] _
[C] say, [Em] I heard angels [B] _ _ [Em]
singin'.
[C] Went down [Em] in the valley and [C] fell out on my [Em] _
[C] knees, [G] I heard [B] angels _ [Em] singin'.
I said, Lord, have mercy, save me and my [C] son, I ask you, please, [Em] _
_ [C] _ [Em] I [B] heard angels _ [Em]
singin'.
[C] Just [Em] about time [C] I started with it [Em] all, _ [C] _ [G] I heard angels [B] _ _ [Em]
singin'.
My dungeon's shuckin', my [C] chain fell [Em]
off, [C] I [Em] heard angels [B] _ [Em] singin'.
People comin' runnin' my eyes, [C] wantin' to know what it's all [Em]
about, [C] I [B] heard angels _ _ [Em]
singin'.
Well, the Holy Ghost hit me and I [C] just couldn't hit but [Em] shout, _ [C] I [B] heard angels _ _ [Em]
singin'.
One _ morning [G] soon, _ _ one morning soon, did you hear that?
One morning soon, _ [Em] _
I [A] heard [B] angels _ _ [Em] singin'.
I was down by my _ _ bedside, down by [A] my _ [Em] bedside, down by [A] my [D] bedside, I heard [B] angels _ [Em] singin'.
I was on [A] my knees a [Em]-prayin', I was on my knees a-prayin', well, I was on [A] my knees a _ -prayin', I heard [D] angels,
[B] _ _ [Em] _ just a little [A] while for a day, [Em] _ _ a little while [G] for a day, _ a little while for a [A] day, I heard [D] angels.
[B] _
_ [Em] _ _ [C] One [Em] more, _ [C] _
_ [Em] _ [C] one more to do, _ one [Em] more [C] to _
[Em] do.
[C] I [G] heard [B] they do, I [Em] _ _ [C] [Em] heard they [B] do, yeah.
[Em] _
I heard they do, [B] [Em] I _ _ heard they do.
[A] Hey, hey. _
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