Chords for Vickie Winans (The Hallelujah Check)
Tempo:
85.725 bpm
Chords used:
Eb
Ebm
Bb
C
F
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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So I don't just come [C] and sit anywhere.
[Ebm] One thing that [Gb] irks me is when the usher [D] sit me next to somebody [Gbm] that don't want me to get my praise on.
[Ab] [Eb]
So you know what I do?
[N] I call them the chosen frozen.
The chosen frozen.
[Dm] Cause if [Gm] God has been as good to you
[N] as he's been to me,
or if he's been as good to me as he's been to you,
baby, we ought to enter his case with thanksgiving.
And enter his courts [Eb] with praise.
Oh, yeah.
Praise [Ebm] the Lord.
So you know what I do?
[Eb] I do what you call a hallelujah check.
I've been checking since about
1989.
[Bb] I [Eb] checked.
Concerts, it don't make no [N] difference.
Cause wherever the saints of God, this is the church right [B] here.
So wherever you [F] park your church, that's where you're gonna have church.
[Ebm] So I don't [Bb] come in.
I don't just come and sit anywhere.
[Eb] We go to conventions.
I got to check.
[Ebm] See where I'm sitting.
[Eb] You know when you put your finger up and duck down, my [Ebm] mom and them was doing it when we was little.
That means, excuse me, in church, I guess that's where they got that from.
[Fm] Finger up, duck [Eb] down.
I never could get to understand
exactly what [Ab] that meant.
But they do it only [N] in the church.
Me and Coconut was at the movies.
[Bb]
We thought we was the only saints there.
[Gb] [N] Girl ran out of popcorn.
She came past me.
I said,
[Fm] PANGALA!
[Ebm]
[Eb] I already know you're saying.
[C] Don't nobody do [Bb] that but the saints of gladness.
[Ebm] Moe!
[Bb] It's all right.
But I can't sit next to one of them chosen frozen.
So I got to check out [Ab] my space.
You know, when I come in,
[B] you can put your finger.
[C] It's all right.
[Ebm] Praise the lord.
You're cute too.
God bless you.
But let me check you out.
[F] And you know how you check them out?
Do your hallelujah check.
[N] You look at them and say,
HALLELUJAH!
If they look at you like, girl,
girl, truly,
we would not be doing those, boo.
You can't have somewhere else.
But this is what you tell them.
You say, well, excuse me, sweetie.
God bless you.
I'm gonna move up a little bit further with your dry self.
But [B] when you come into the house of God,
over all of [Bb] the saints of God, I'll assemble.
And [Bb] you get to the seat where you think you're going to sit down, and you look at your neighbor and say, hallelujah!
And your neighbor, hallelujah, will say, hey, glory, she's still over, baby.
I'm gonna sit right down here by you.
Look at your neighbor and say, [Bbm] hallelujah!
[Bb]
That's been too good to me [Fm] for me to come up in here and sit [C] down on him.
[Eb] Woo!
[Gb]
[N] All right, I think we all in the right [F] space.
[Db] [F] All [C] right,
[Ebm] One thing that [Gb] irks me is when the usher [D] sit me next to somebody [Gbm] that don't want me to get my praise on.
[Ab] [Eb]
So you know what I do?
[N] I call them the chosen frozen.
The chosen frozen.
[Dm] Cause if [Gm] God has been as good to you
[N] as he's been to me,
or if he's been as good to me as he's been to you,
baby, we ought to enter his case with thanksgiving.
And enter his courts [Eb] with praise.
Oh, yeah.
Praise [Ebm] the Lord.
So you know what I do?
[Eb] I do what you call a hallelujah check.
I've been checking since about
1989.
[Bb] I [Eb] checked.
Concerts, it don't make no [N] difference.
Cause wherever the saints of God, this is the church right [B] here.
So wherever you [F] park your church, that's where you're gonna have church.
[Ebm] So I don't [Bb] come in.
I don't just come and sit anywhere.
[Eb] We go to conventions.
I got to check.
[Ebm] See where I'm sitting.
[Eb] You know when you put your finger up and duck down, my [Ebm] mom and them was doing it when we was little.
That means, excuse me, in church, I guess that's where they got that from.
[Fm] Finger up, duck [Eb] down.
I never could get to understand
exactly what [Ab] that meant.
But they do it only [N] in the church.
Me and Coconut was at the movies.
[Bb]
We thought we was the only saints there.
[Gb] [N] Girl ran out of popcorn.
She came past me.
I said,
[Fm] PANGALA!
[Ebm]
[Eb] I already know you're saying.
[C] Don't nobody do [Bb] that but the saints of gladness.
[Ebm] Moe!
[Bb] It's all right.
But I can't sit next to one of them chosen frozen.
So I got to check out [Ab] my space.
You know, when I come in,
[B] you can put your finger.
[C] It's all right.
[Ebm] Praise the lord.
You're cute too.
God bless you.
But let me check you out.
[F] And you know how you check them out?
Do your hallelujah check.
[N] You look at them and say,
HALLELUJAH!
If they look at you like, girl,
girl, truly,
we would not be doing those, boo.
You can't have somewhere else.
But this is what you tell them.
You say, well, excuse me, sweetie.
God bless you.
I'm gonna move up a little bit further with your dry self.
But [B] when you come into the house of God,
over all of [Bb] the saints of God, I'll assemble.
And [Bb] you get to the seat where you think you're going to sit down, and you look at your neighbor and say, hallelujah!
And your neighbor, hallelujah, will say, hey, glory, she's still over, baby.
I'm gonna sit right down here by you.
Look at your neighbor and say, [Bbm] hallelujah!
[Bb]
That's been too good to me [Fm] for me to come up in here and sit [C] down on him.
[Eb] Woo!
[Gb]
[N] All right, I think we all in the right [F] space.
[Db] [F] All [C] right,
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So I don't just come [C] and sit anywhere.
_ [Ebm] One thing that [Gb] irks me is when the usher [D] sit me next to somebody [Gbm] that don't want me to get my praise on.
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
So you know what I do?
[N] I call them the chosen frozen.
The chosen frozen.
_ _ [Dm] Cause if [Gm] God has been as good to you
[N] _ as he's been to me,
or if he's been as good to me as he's been to you,
baby, we ought to enter his case with thanksgiving.
And enter his courts [Eb] with praise.
Oh, _ _ _ _ _ yeah.
Praise [Ebm] the Lord.
So you know what I do?
[Eb] _ I do what you call a hallelujah check.
_ I've been checking since about
1989.
_ [Bb] I [Eb] checked.
Concerts, it don't make no [N] difference.
Cause wherever the saints of God, this is the church right [B] here.
So wherever you [F] park your church, that's where you're gonna have church.
[Ebm] _ So I don't [Bb] come in.
I don't just come and sit anywhere.
[Eb] We go to conventions.
I got to check.
[Ebm] See where I'm sitting.
_ [Eb] You know when you put your finger up and duck down, my [Ebm] mom and them was doing it when we was little.
That means, excuse me, in church, I guess that's where they got that from.
[Fm] Finger up, duck [Eb] down.
I never could get to understand
exactly what [Ab] that meant.
But they do it only [N] in the church.
Me and Coconut was at the movies.
[Bb] _ _
We thought we was the only saints there.
_ _ [Gb] [N] Girl ran out of popcorn.
She came past me.
I said,
[Fm] PANGALA!
_ [Ebm] _
[Eb] I already know you're saying.
_ _ _ [C] _ Don't nobody do [Bb] that but the saints of gladness.
[Ebm] Moe!
_ _ _ [Bb] It's all right.
But I can't sit next to one of them chosen frozen.
So I got to check out [Ab] my space.
You know, when I come in,
[B] _ you can put your finger.
[C] It's all right.
[Ebm] Praise the lord.
You're cute too.
God bless you.
But let me check you out.
[F] And you know how you check them out?
Do your hallelujah check.
[N] You look at them and say,
_ HALLELUJAH!
If they look at you like, girl,
_ girl, truly,
we would not be doing those, boo.
_ You can't have somewhere else.
But this is what you tell them.
You say, well, excuse me, sweetie.
God bless you.
I'm gonna move up a little bit further with your dry self.
_ But [B] when you come into the house of God,
over all of [Bb] the saints of God, I'll assemble.
And [Bb] you get to the seat where you think you're going to sit down, and you look at your neighbor and say, hallelujah!
And your neighbor, hallelujah, will say, hey, glory, she's still over, baby.
I'm gonna sit right down here by you.
Look at your neighbor and say, [Bbm] hallelujah! _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ That's been too good to me [Fm] for me to come up in here and sit [C] down on him.
_ [Eb] _ _ Woo!
[Gb] _ _
[N] All right, I think we all in the right [F] space. _ _
_ _ [Db] _ _ [F] _ All [C] right,
_ [Ebm] One thing that [Gb] irks me is when the usher [D] sit me next to somebody [Gbm] that don't want me to get my praise on.
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ _
So you know what I do?
[N] I call them the chosen frozen.
The chosen frozen.
_ _ [Dm] Cause if [Gm] God has been as good to you
[N] _ as he's been to me,
or if he's been as good to me as he's been to you,
baby, we ought to enter his case with thanksgiving.
And enter his courts [Eb] with praise.
Oh, _ _ _ _ _ yeah.
Praise [Ebm] the Lord.
So you know what I do?
[Eb] _ I do what you call a hallelujah check.
_ I've been checking since about
1989.
_ [Bb] I [Eb] checked.
Concerts, it don't make no [N] difference.
Cause wherever the saints of God, this is the church right [B] here.
So wherever you [F] park your church, that's where you're gonna have church.
[Ebm] _ So I don't [Bb] come in.
I don't just come and sit anywhere.
[Eb] We go to conventions.
I got to check.
[Ebm] See where I'm sitting.
_ [Eb] You know when you put your finger up and duck down, my [Ebm] mom and them was doing it when we was little.
That means, excuse me, in church, I guess that's where they got that from.
[Fm] Finger up, duck [Eb] down.
I never could get to understand
exactly what [Ab] that meant.
But they do it only [N] in the church.
Me and Coconut was at the movies.
[Bb] _ _
We thought we was the only saints there.
_ _ [Gb] [N] Girl ran out of popcorn.
She came past me.
I said,
[Fm] PANGALA!
_ [Ebm] _
[Eb] I already know you're saying.
_ _ _ [C] _ Don't nobody do [Bb] that but the saints of gladness.
[Ebm] Moe!
_ _ _ [Bb] It's all right.
But I can't sit next to one of them chosen frozen.
So I got to check out [Ab] my space.
You know, when I come in,
[B] _ you can put your finger.
[C] It's all right.
[Ebm] Praise the lord.
You're cute too.
God bless you.
But let me check you out.
[F] And you know how you check them out?
Do your hallelujah check.
[N] You look at them and say,
_ HALLELUJAH!
If they look at you like, girl,
_ girl, truly,
we would not be doing those, boo.
_ You can't have somewhere else.
But this is what you tell them.
You say, well, excuse me, sweetie.
God bless you.
I'm gonna move up a little bit further with your dry self.
_ But [B] when you come into the house of God,
over all of [Bb] the saints of God, I'll assemble.
And [Bb] you get to the seat where you think you're going to sit down, and you look at your neighbor and say, hallelujah!
And your neighbor, hallelujah, will say, hey, glory, she's still over, baby.
I'm gonna sit right down here by you.
Look at your neighbor and say, [Bbm] hallelujah! _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ That's been too good to me [Fm] for me to come up in here and sit [C] down on him.
_ [Eb] _ _ Woo!
[Gb] _ _
[N] All right, I think we all in the right [F] space. _ _
_ _ [Db] _ _ [F] _ All [C] right,