Chords for The Paynes - Oh, What A City - Live

_ _ _ Many, many years ago, my wife and I lost a child.
She was [Bb] stillborn.
My [Dm] wife came to me and she said,
Mike, _ [C] I've got just a [F] couple of lines
that the Lord keeps giving me over and over again.
She said, you've got to write a song to it.
She said, he keeps telling me, no more cry, no more die.
We [C] wrote this next song, listen as we sing,
oh, what a city [F] he's gone to prepare.
Listen.
♪ _ _ There's a city over yonder ♪
[Bb] ♪ Not made with [F] human hands ♪
♪ [Bb] A place [F] where no heartache [G] will ever trouble [C] man ♪
[F] ♪ All the poets and great authors [Bb] cannot breathe here ♪
♪ Still [F] it is cried, all the beauty [C] that's waiting [F] _ inside [Gm] ♪
♪ Oh, what [Bb] a city, what [F] a _ _ land ♪
♪ From those hills [G] of Zion, I [C] know I'll stand there _ [F] _
♪
♪ [Am] No more dying, no [Bb] more pain for us [F] to bear ♪
♪ Oh, what a city [C] he's gone to [F] prepare _ [Bb] ♪ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ _ [G] ♪ [F] There's no need for a son there ♪
♪ [Bb] Words like would be [F] too dear [Bb] compared to [F] the glory [F] [G] of the land ♪
♪ The light that [C] shines within for [F] the lambs slain on Calvary ♪
♪ [Bb] Shines brighter [F] than the sun on all God's children [C] who have a care [F] ♪
♪ Oh, what [Bb] a city, what [F] a _ _ land ♪
♪ On those [G] hills of Zion, I [C] know I'll stand [Am] there ♪
♪ There's no [F] crying, no [Am] more dying, no [Bb] more pain for [F] us to bear ♪
♪ Oh, what a city he's [C] gone to prepare _ _ ♪
♪ There's no crying, no more dying, no [Bb] more pain for us to bear ♪
♪ Oh, what a city [C] he's gone to prepare _ _ ♪
♪ Oh, [F] what a city _ [C] he's gone [C] to [F] prepare ♪ _ _ _ _
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