Chords for STM Guitar: They'll Know We Are Christians

Okay, _ _ _ _ this is the practice video for They'll Know We Are Christians.
And I just realized that I showed you the way we were practicing the E minor, A minor
change today in class, which was playing the E minor with the second and third fingers,
and then just lifting [Am] them up, breaking them down to the A minor.
There's nothing wrong with that, but there's actually a [E] better way to do this song.
Play the E minor with your first [Em] and second fingers.
_ Okay?
Then, when you change to the A minor, you're going to have to leave your second finger
down, [F] drop your third finger in beside it, and bring your first finger back here to the
[Am] first fret of the second string, to the A minor.
[E] So you're just kind of [Em] twisting, pivoting around on that second [E] finger.
[Em] Second finger never leaves the [Am] guitar.
[Em] Never leaves its [E] position there.
And it helps to [Em] make just a little bend of the wrist.
I kind of lift my elbow out this way when I go to the E minor, and then I tuck it back
[Am] in when I go to the A minor.
Now the beauty in doing it this way is that [A] when you [Em] have an E minor here, your second
finger is still down for the [C] C.
[Em] You just bring the hand around.
This time you tuck the elbow in, tight to your [D] stomach, and bring your wrist in this way.
And then [C] your hand's positioned, and you can reach that big C chord where your hand's all
stretched out there.
So this second finger never leaves the second fret of the [Ab] fourth string during the entire song.
Okay?
It makes it real [Am] simple here.
A minor, [Em] E minor, C.
[E] So your changes you have to make are the E minor to A minor, and then you have to go
from E minor [Em] to C.
_ [C] _ _
[Em] So go to E minor to A minor, [E] there's a little bit of this elbow movement.
[C] But to go to C, [Em] there's even more.
You bring the wrist around this way [C] to get the hand up and over like that.
[F] Okay.
And again, it's the folk strum.
_ So if you don't have that down, work on it on the skills practice video for the folk strum.
I'm not going to go over it again on this video.
_ So we'll go through the song once, I'll tell you the chords, and then we'll sing a couple verses.
_ [Em] _ So the intro will be like an E minor, [Am] A [Em] minor, E minor.
E minor.
_ _ Stay on the E minor. _ _
[Am] A minor.
_ _ [Em] E minor. _ _
Back to [Am] A minor.
_ _ [Em] E minor.
Here comes the C, get ready.
[C] C. _ _ _
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We will walk with each other.
We will walk hand in hand.
[Am] We will walk with each other.
[Em] We will walk hand in hand.
[Am] And together we'll spread the news [Em] that God is in our land.
[C] And they'll know we are Christians [Em] by our love.
[Am] By our love.
Yes, [Em] they'll know [Am] we are Christians by [Em] our love. _ _
Just give you something to practice with.
They'll know we're Christians.
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