Chords for Dolly Parton - He's Alive

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_ _ _ Oh, _ thank you very [Gm] much.
I feel very honored to get to sing this song on the show tonight.
And as Mama would say, I hope you get a blessing out of it. _ _ _
_ _ [G] The gates and doors were barred and all the [F] windows [G] fastened down.
I spent the night in sleeplessness [F] and rose at [G] every sound.
[Cm] Half in hopeless sorrow [F] and half in [G] fear
the day would find the soldiers breaking through [F] to drag us [Gm] all away. _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] And just before the sunrise, I [F] heard something [G] at the wall.
The gate began to rattle [F] and a voice [Gm] began to call.
So [Cm] I hurried to the window, [F] looked down [G] into the streets,
expecting swords and torches [F] and the sound of [G] soldiers' feet. _ _ _
_ _ [F] But [G] there was no one there but Mary, so [F] I went down to let [G] her in.
John stood there beside me as she [F] told me where [G] she'd been.
[Cm] She said they'd moved him in the night.
_ [Gm] He knows where the stone's been rolled away.
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_ So we both, _ _ _ [F] _
_ [Gm] _ we found the stone and empty [F] tombs just the way that Mary [Gm] said.
[Cm] But the whining sheep, they're after _ _ [Gm] these shells.
And how or where they'd taken him [F] was more than [Gm] I could tell.
_ _ _ _ Oh, but something strange had happened there.
Just [F] what I did [Gm] not know.
John believed a miracle, [F] but I just [Gm] turned to go. _
[Cm] Circumstance and speculation [F] couldn't lift me [Gm] very high
[G] because I'd seen them crucify him [F] and _ I [G] saw him die. _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _ [G] Back inside the [Gm] house again, [F] the guilt and [G] anguish came _
_ and everything I'd [Gm] promised him [F] just added [G] to my shame.
When [Cm] at last it came to choices, I _
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_ and even if he was alive, _ [F] _ _ it wouldn't [G] be the same.
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[G] Then suddenly the air was filled with a strange and sweet [F] perfume.
[Gm] The light that came from everywhere drove shadows from [F] the room
[Cm] and Jesus stood before me. _
[F] _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ Then I fell down on my knees and I [F] just clung to [Gm] him and cried.
_ _ _ _ [F] _ [Gm] Then he raised me to my feet [F] and as I looked [Gm] into his eyes
the love was shining out from him [F] like sunlight [Bb] from the sky.
[Eb] Guilt and my confusion [F] disappeared in [Gm] sweet release _ _
and every fear I'd ever [F] had just melted [G] into peace.
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[G] He's alive!
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He's alive!
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_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ He's [F] alive!
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