Chords for Don Francisco in South Africa '08 - "He's Alive"

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_ [Am] The gates and doors were barred, all [G] the windows [Am] fastened down.
I spent the night in sleeplessness, [G] rose at every sound.
[D] Half in hopeless sorrow, [G] half in [Am] fear the day,
would find the soldiers breaking through [G] to drag us [Am] all away. _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ Just [Am] before the sunrise, I [G] heard something at [Am] the wall.
The gate began to rattle, [G] a voice [Am] began to call.
[D] I hurried to the window [G] and looked down [Am] into the street,
expecting swords and torches [G] and the sound of soldiers' [Am] feet. _
_ _ [Am] _ _ [G] But [Am] there was no one there but Mary, [G] so I went down to let [Am] her in.
_ John stood there beside me [G] as she told us where [Am] she'd been.
[A] She said they'd moved him in the night.
[D] None of us [Am] knows where.
The stone's been rolled away [G] and now his body isn't there. _
[Am] We both ran toward the garden and [G] then John ran on [Am] ahead.
We'd found the stone and the empty tomb, [G] just the way that [Am] Mary'd said.
[D] But the winding sheet they'd wrapped him in was just an [Am] empty shell.
How or where they'd taken him [G] was more than [Am] I could tell. _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ [Am] Something strange had happened there, but just [G] what, I didn't know.
_ John believed the miracle, [G] but I'd just turned to [Am] go.
_ [D] Circumstance and speculation [G] couldn't lift me very [Am] high,
_ _ cause I'd seen them crucify [Em] him, _ then I saw [Am] him die.
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_ [Am] Back inside the house again, the [G] guilt and anguish [E] came.
_ _ [Am] Everything I'd promised him [G] just added to my [Am] shame,
[A] cause when at last it came, the choices I'd denied, I knew his [Am] name. _ _
Even if he was alive, [G] _ _ it wouldn't be [Am] the same.
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_ [Am] Suddenly the air was filled with strange and sweet perfume.
[G] [Am] Light that came from everywhere drove shadows from the room.
[D] And Jesus stood before me with [G] his arms held [Am] open wide.
_ And I fell down on my knees and [G] just clung to [Am] him and cried. _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [Am] He raised me to my feet [G] as I looked into his [Am] eyes. _ _
Love was shining out from him like sunlight from the [F] skies.
Guilt and my confusion _ [G] disappeared in [Am] sweet release.
[Em] [Am] And every fear I'd ever had [G] just melted into [A] peace. _ _ _ _
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[A] He's alive, _ [C] he's alive, he's [G] alive and I'm forgiven.
[D] Heaven's gates are open wide.
[A] He's alive, _ [C] he's alive, _ he's [G] alive and I'm forgiven.
[D] Heaven's gates are open wide.
[A] He's alive, _ [C] he's alive, [G] he's alive and I'm forgiven.
[D] Heaven's gates are open wide.
He's [A] alive, _ [C] he's alive, _ he's [G]
alive.
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