Chords for Etta James - God's Song (Thats Why I Love Mankind)

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_ King Slew Abel [Ab] [Bbm] said, knew not [Ebm] why, for if the children of [Bb] Israel [Bbm] were to multiply, [F] _ why
must [Bbm] any of the [Ab] children, why [Gb] must they [F] die?
So he asked the Lord, and the Lord sang, [Bbm] _ man [F] mean [Bbm] nothing, [F] he [Bbm] means less [Ebm] to me _ [Bb] than the
lowest cactus [Ebm] flower [Bb] on the [Ebm] humblest [Bb] yucca tree.
[F] _ [Fm] [F] Chases [Db] round the desert, [Ab] cause he thinks
[Gb] that's where I'll be, and [F] that's why I [Bbm] love mankind.
[Fm] _
[Bbm] _ _ [F] I recoil [Bbm] in horror [F] from [Db] the foulness
[Gb] of thee, _ [Bb] all from the squalor, [Gb] [Bb] and the filth, [Ebm] and the [F] misery.
_ [Fm] How we [Bbm] laugh up here [Ab] in heaven
at [Gb] the prayers you [Dbm] offer me, [F] and that's why [Bbm] I love mankind. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Bbm] The Christian and the [Fm] Jews [Bbm] were having a jamboree, yeah.
[Ebm] The Buddhists and the [Fm] Hindus, [Bbm] the Buddhists
and the Hindus joined in on satellite TV.
[F] They picked their finest priest, [Bbm] [Ab] and they
began [Gb] to speak, [Bbm] and they said, Lord, the plague is on the world, _ and it's free.
[Ebm] The temples
that we built [Bbm] for you have tumbled down, fell into the sea.
[F] Lord, _ _
_ [Bbm] [Gb] please, please, let us
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_ _ [Fm] _ _ [Bb] _ [Bbm] _ [F] _ _
[Bbm] _ [F] _ [Bbm] _ [Gb] be.
[Bbm] I'll [Bb] take you, your [Gb] children, and say [Bb] how [Ebm] blessed are we.
[F] _ Now you all must be crazy
[Bbm] [Ab] to [Gb] put your faith in me, [F] and that's why I [Bbm] love mankind.
[Gb] You really [Fm] need me, [F] I [Bbm] love mankind. _ _ _ _ _ _