Chords for "Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down" by Orville Johnson from Acoustic Guitar

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Hi, Orville Johnson for Acoustic Guitar, and I'm going to play you a spiritual
tune called Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [Am] _
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ [Em] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
[Dm] Well, there ain't no [Am] grave _ [F#]
gonna [Dm] hold my body _ [Am] down.
[C] _ _
_ [Dm] _ Ain't no [C] grave _ [F#]
gonna [Dm] hold [E] my body _ _ down.
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Am] Ain't no [C] grave _ [D] _
[Dm] gonna hold my [Am] body _ _ _ [D] _
_ [Dm] _ [E] down.
Ain't [G#] _ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ _ no _ [Em] _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ grave [F#] _
_ _ [E] gonna hold my body down.
Ain't _ [A] no _ [G#] _ _ _ [C] grave _ [F#]
gonna hold my body down.
[F] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ [Dm] _ Ain't no [C] grave [F#] gonna _ [Dm] hold my [E] body _ down. _
_ When I [Em] hear [C] that trumpet sound, _ [D] I'll be getting up and walking [F] _
around.
Cause there ain't no [C] grave _ [F#]
gonna [Dm] hold my [Am] body down.
_ [D] _
_ I sit and I look [D#m] way [G] over Jordan.
[F#] _ _ _ What do you think I see?
_ I saw _ a band of holy [Em] _ _ angels, and they were coming [E] after me.
[D#] Ain't [C] no grave gonna [F#] hold _ [Dm] my [E] body down.
[C] _ _
_ _ [B] Ain't no [C] grave _ gonna [D] _ [Dm] hold my [E] body _ _ down.
_ [Am] When I [Em] hear that [Am] trumpet sound, _ I'll [D] be jumping up out of the [C] ground.
[Em] Ain't no grave _ [D] gonna [Dm] hold [Am] my body down. _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D#] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [Am] _
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_ _ _ _ [Em] _ [Am] _ _ [D#] _
_ [C] _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _ _ [Am] _
_ _ I go [G#] down [Am] yonder Gabriel, [G#] put your [Am] foot on the land and [G] the sea.
[G#] _ [Am] But [G#] don't you blow [G] your trumpet.
[Am] _ _ [E] Don't you give to me.
[E] _ Ain't no [C] grave _ [D] gonna [Dm] hold my [Am] body [C] down.
_ [D] _
_ [Dm] Ain't [C] no grave gonna [D]
hold [B] my [E] body _ down. _
_ [Am] When you hear [F] that trumpet [Am]
sound, I'll [D] be getting up and walking _ [F]
around.
[C] Ain't no grave, _ _ _ [D] _
_ [Gm] ain't [Am] no grave, _ [D]
ain't no grave gonna [Am] hold,
[C] _ _ [F#] _
[Dm] ain't no grave gonna _ hold, [D] _
_ [Bm] ain't no [C] grave _ [D] gonna [F] hold _ [E] _ my _ _ [A] body down.
_ _ _ _ [Am] _
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_ _ _ _ So that was an African American spiritual tune called Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down.
Now when I was thinking about arranging this for a guitar,
_ _ like a lot of these tunes in the songbook,
these are old songs, they've been recorded and played many different ways.
So when I was thinking about how I wanted to approach this, _ _
I usually go for, I sort of think of _ touchstones [F#] in my own _ _ _ reference points of [D#] guitar playing and music.
And so in this case, I was thinking, well what if I kind of went a little sort of Merle Traversy, Chet Atkins-y
_ in the background for my accompaniment on the guitar.
So [Am] that's why I got this little, I [G] decided to put the song in [Am] A minor. _ _
[E] And then I had this little bass line.
[C] _ _
_ [D] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ [D] _ _ [B] _ _ And then [F] I was using this right hand pattern.
[Am] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ So I'm just using that picking pattern, [A] thumb, [F] _ _ [Am] pinch, _ finger. _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Gm] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Em]
So that sort of gave me [D#] that flavor that I wanted _ _ of [C#] kind of Merle Traversy sort of sound.
And _ then since I had gone with that _ descending bass line, chromatic bass [E] line,
[B] in the chorus, [F#] the part where I'm singing Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down,
then when I was singing [Em] the verses, I thought maybe I would like to keep some sort of consistency
_ in that _ chromaticism [C#] of what I was doing.
So I did this in the [Am] verses.
_ [E] _ _ _ [C] _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ [G] So you see I've got this line [A] going down.
[G#] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [G#] Coming back up.
[A] _ _ _ So I tried to get a certain consistency in _ feeling between the verse and the chorus.
But I still wanted to do something that differentiated them.
So I didn't use the same chromatic [E] bass line.
But I used sort of a [D#] variation _ _ in the different parts.
_ _ _ So get out your music.
Take a look at that.
Play along with me.
And I hope you have fun with that. _ _
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