Chords for God Is Alive Magic Is Afoot Buffy Sainte-Marie

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_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ God is alive, magic is afoot. _
God is alive, magic is afoot.
God is afoot, magic is alive.
Alive is afoot, _ _ magic is afoot.
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God never sickened, many poor men lied.
Many sick men lied, magic never weakened.
Magic never hid, _ magic always ruled.
God is afoot, [C] God never died.
_ _ _ God was ruler, though his funeral [F] lengthened.
Though his mourners thickened, magic never fled.
Though his [Dm] shrouds were hoisted, the naked God did live.
Though his words were twisted, the naked magic thrived.
Though his death was published round and round the [F] world.
God did not believe, [C] _
_ _ _ _ many hurt [Em] men wondered.
Many struck men bled, [Dm] magic never faltered.
Magic always led, many stones were rolled.
But God would not lie [Bb] down, many wild men lied.
Many fat men [D] listened, though [G] they offered stones.
Magic still was fed, [F] though they locked [C] their coffers.
God was always [F] served, magic is afoot.
God was alive, is afoot, alive is in command.
Many weak men hungered, many strong men thrived.
[C] Though they boasted solitude, God was at their [G] [F] side.
Nor the dreamer in his cell, nor the captain on the hill.
Magic is alive, though his death was pardoned.
Round and round the world, the heart would not [C] believe.
_ [G] _ [F] Though laws were carved in marble, they could not shelter men.
[Dm] Though altars built in parliaments, they could not order men.
[Bb] Police arrested magic, and magic went with [C] them.
For magic [F] loves the hungry.
_ _ [Dm] But magic would not tarry, it moves from arm to arm.
[Bb] It would not stay with them.
[G] Magic is afoot, it cannot come to harm.
It rests in an empty palm, it spawns in an empty mind.
But magic is no instrument, [C] magic is the end. _
_ Many men drove magic, but magic stayed behind.
[Am] Many strong men lied, they only passed through magic and out the other side.
[Dm] Many weak men lied, they came to God in secret.
And though they left him nourished, they would not tell who healed.
[Bb] Though mountains dashed before them, they said that God was dead.
[G] Though his shrouds were hoisted, the naked God did live.
[Dm] This I mean to whisper to my mind.
This I mean to laugh within my mind.
This I mean, my mind, to serve till service is.
But magic moving through the world, and mind itself is magic.
Forcing through the flesh, and flesh itself is magic.
Dancing on a clock, and time itself, the magic length of [C] God. _ _
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