Chords for Terry Smith Song: "Far Side Banks of Jordan" 1999 Avoca Old Time Country Music Festival

_ [G] I think we haven't got the guy to pull us [C] off stage, but I think that's about all our time.
We've got about three [G] minutes.
We're going to do Lillie Jordan one more time, okay?
All right. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] Most of you [G] know, _ some of you know anyway, this song's been very good to us since 1976.
It's when the first record of this came out.
My favorite.
My very [G] favorite song.
_ Johnny Cash and June Carter.
First record on the Allison Krauss and the Cox family.
June [D] Carter's put out a new CD, and there's been a [Em] lot of gospel and bluegrass [G] groups.
I know of 35 versions of it.
That guy in Texas told me last February, he [D] said,
those words you're [G] singing aren't the original words of that song. _ _
_ _ I said, well, I'm the originator.
I guess I ought to know. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Anyway, dedicate this to everybody.
[E] I'm waiting to meet somebody on the other side.
He's from Missouri.
He's from Missouri, yeah. _
_ _ If you know what to sing along with, [E] it thrills me when I see people sing along with this song
and [G] know that they know it.
I've heard a lot of stories about what it's meant to them, and I appreciate that. _ _ _ _
E.G.
_ I'll admit my steps are growing [D] _ weary early each day.
_ I've got a certain _ journey on [G] my _ mind. _ _
_ _ _ Words of this old world cease [D] to make me most sad. _
My one regret is leaving you [G] _ behind. _ _ _ _
_ If it proves to be it will, [D] that I am cursed and crossed. _ _
_ Somehow I believe _ [G] it will be. _ _ _ _ _
When it comes your time to [D] cry, _ don't be lost. _ _
For I will be the first one that [G]
you'll see.
_ _ I'll be waiting on the far side banks of _ _ Jordan.
_ I'll [C] be sitting drawing pictures in [G] the _ sand.
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When I see you coming, I [G] will rise up with a shout and [C] run
_ [G] through the shallow _ [D] waters reaching for [G] your head. _ _
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_ _ _ Through this line we've labored long [D] to turn our meager way.
_ It's brought us trembling _ hands and [G] fading eyes. _ _
_ _ So I'll rest there on that shore [D] and turn my eyes away.
_ _ Until you come, then we'll see _ [G] paradise. _ _ _
_ I'll be waiting on the far side banks of _ _ Jordan.
_ [C] I'll be sitting drawing pictures [G] in the _ sand. _ _
_ _ [D] When I see you coming, I [G] will rise up with a shout and [C] run
_ through the [G]
shallow [D] waters reaching for your _ _ head.
I'll run [C]
through [G] the shallow waters [D] _
reaching _ for your [C]
head.
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[N] _ _ I'll rise up with a shout and run through the shallow waters _ _ _