Chords for The Talley Trio (He's Alive) Northwest GospelFest 09-24-10

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_ _ _ The [Fm] gates and doors were barred and [Bb] all the ropes [Fm] pressed me down.
I spent the night in sleeplessness, and the rose air was [Bbm] sound.
Half in hopeless sorrow [Eb] and half in [Fm] fear the day
When final soldiers break the truth to drag us all away. _ _ _
_ In the broad [F] sunrise [Eb] I heard something [Fm] echo.
The gate began to rattle [Eb] and the woods began [Fm] to call.
[Bbm] So I looked through the window, [Eb] I looked down into [Fm] the street.
_ Swords and [Bb] torches [Eb] and the sound of [Fm] swallows' wings. _ _
[Eb] _ [Fm] There was no one there but Mary, [Eb] so I went down to [Fm] her little room.
John stood there beside me [Bb] as she told me [Fm] where she'd been.
[Bbm] She said they'd moved him in the night and us [Fm] knows where.
The stone's been rolled away and [Eb] _
[Fm] nobody's in there.
_ _ So we all _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ prepared to _
[Eb] _ [Fm] go to sleep, [Bbm] but the one she'd been wrapped in was just an [Fm] empty shell.
I'd _ taken what was more than I had. _ _ _
I was in a strange corner, just what I didn't know.
John believed a miracle, but I just turned the goal.
[Bbm] Circumstance and speculation [Eb] couldn't lift me [Fm] very high.
[Bb] _ [Fm] Cause I'd seen them crucify [Eb] him, _ and [F] I saw him die.
_ _ _ [F] Back inside the house again, [Eb] the guilt and [Fm] ashamed.
[Bb] _ _ [Fm] Everything I promised [Eb] him added to [Fm] my shame.
[Bbm] When at last it came to choices, I did not.
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_ _ _ _ [F] _ And even if he [Eb] wanted I'd _ [Fm] not leave him beside. _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ [Fm] The [F] air was filled with a strange and sweet perfume.
[Fm] I could hear from everywhere cold shadows from her room.
[Bbm] In deep I stood before him [Eb] with his arms.
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_ _ [Eb] I took [F] in her eyes, [Fm] _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Fm] and as I looked into her eyes,
_ _ I was shining African [Eb] like a_
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in my communion, [Eb] disappeared and [Fm] smeared. _ _
_ _ _ _ Every fear I'd ever had.
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_ _ _ He _ [Fm] _ _
is not [Bb] here, but he is. _ _ _
[F] He's _ _ _ _ alive!
_ [Eb] He's alive!
[Bb] _ _ He's [F] alive!
He's alive!
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