Chords for Amy Grant & Michael W. Smith - 2008 Dove Awards

[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
[N] I'm going to tell you the devil works, but it's really different 25 years [A] ago.
_ _ And tonight we're here to [E] celebrate 25 years of great music and the amazing career [F#m] of my good friend Michael W.
Smith.
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[A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [B] You know the funny thing [D] about a career is that you never know on the front end that it is a career.
_ You're just out there trying and trying.
For [C] Michael it all began when Sandy Patty recorded his song, [D] How Majestic is Thy [G] Name.
_ [D] _ Lucky for me, [G] about the same time, you were an out of work [Am] piano player.
_ I promised you a tiny bit of cash and a deli tray every night _ _ [D]
when [F#] we went on the road.
_ _ During that time we wrote a lot of [Em] songs and I thought we [D] might sort of walk down musical lane [G] together. _ _ _
_ [D] Well _ that wasn't one of the songs we wrote.
[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Michael was one of the first artists who quoted long _ excerpts of scripture from stage.
I don't know how many of you were in the crowd when he quoted Psalm 139. _
It changed _ _ my understanding of that psalm.
So when he came to me and said, let's put this part of Psalm [B] 119 to [E] music, _ _ I said, let's go for it.
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[B] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ Thy Word [B] is a lamp unto [E] my feet and [A] a light _ [B]
unto _ [E] my _ _ _ _ _ _ soul.
Thy _ Word _ [B] is a lamp unto [E] my _
_ [B] _ [A] _ feet [B] and a light unto _ [E] my _ _ _ _ _ soul.
[B] And when I feel [F#m] _
afraid, _ [C#m] think I've lost [G#m] my way, _ _ [A] still _ [B] you're there [A] right beside _ [E] me. _
_ [B] And nothing [C#] will [F#m] I, _ _ [C#m] as long as you [G#m] are near, _ [A] _ _ _ please [B] be near [F#] me [C#] to the end. _
[G#] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ Oh, _ _ [E] thy _ _ _ _ _ [B] Word is a lamp unto [E] my feet [A] and a light [B] unto _ _ [E] my path. _ _
Oh, _ thy _ _ _ Word [B] is a lamp unto [E] my feet [B] and [A] a light [B] unto _ _ [E] my path. _ _
_ [A] And a light _ [B] unto _ _ [E] my path. _ _
_ You're [A] _ _ _ _ [B]
unto _ _ my [E] _ path.
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