Chords for Brightly Beams Our Fathers Mercy - The Lower Lights - Provo

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[F] Can you hear us in the back? _ _ _
_ So, um, [Gb] this next song, [E] it was written by this guy a long time ago.
Um, well that's a good way to start it out, I guess.
[Gb] Um, he was a musician and he wrote songs in the late 1800s.
And he, uh, was the musical director for this [E] sermon for a pretty famous preacher named James L.
Moody.
And he, uh, was inspired by this message of this story that the preacher told.
Uh, which basically was a ship captain, um, who was trying to get his ship to the Cleveland Harbor on a dark and [F] stormy night.
And, uh, he was talking to the captain, [Gb] who was, uh, talking to the pilot who was piloting the ship.
And he, and he asked him if this was indeed the Cleveland Harbor.
[D] And he said, yes it is.
And he said, well where are the, where are the lower lights?
And he said, well they've [Gbm] gone out.
And, uh, he said, can we make the harbor?
And he said, we have to or we'll die.
And they had the lighthouse but no lower lights around to [B] see where the shore was.
And [Gb] so, inevitably the storm [F] caught up to them and they crashed into the rocks and sunk to their watery grave.
And the point of the [F] message for the preacher, which then inspired the person to write the song, was
we are the ones that are those lower lights.
We all know where to look for our inspiration.
And so we have to [C] be kind of an example to those around us to help look that way when they get lost.
So that rightly [C] beams our Father's mercy.
_ Oh, _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
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_ baby.
Yeah.
Our Father's [Bb] mercy [G] from His light,
_ [Em] [C] However more, _ [F] _
_ _ [Bb] He gives the keeping _
_ [F] Of the light along the shore.
Let [Bb] the lower [F] lights be burning,
[G] Send a gleam [C] across the wave.
_ [F] Faith takes [Bb] strong and sea man,
[F] You may rescue, you may save.
The burden of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
sin has settled,
_ [G] Let the _ angry [C] billows roll. _
[F] Eager eyes are [Bb] watching,
Looking for [F] the light [C]
along [F] the shore.
_ [Bb] Let the _ lower [F] lights be burning, _
[G] Send a gleam [C] across the wave.
[F] Faith takes [Bb] strong and sea man,
[F] You may rescue, [C] you [F] may save. _
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_ _ _ We have no feeble land, [Bb] my brother,
Some [G] forsay the [C] tempest tossed.
[C] _ [F] Trying to _ [Bb] make the harbor
In [F] the darkness may be long. _
[Bb] Let the _ lower [F] lights be burning,
_ [G] Send a gleam across [C] the wave.
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_ Faith takes [Bb] strong and sea man,
[F] You may rescue, [C] you [Dm] may save.
You [F] may rescue, you may [Gb] _ [F] save.
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