Chords for Gotta Tell Somebody

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_ _ _ _ _ [Am] She kept on getting weaker [F] as day dragged into day.
[Am] The doctors gave [Em] no hope for her.
[F] She seemed to fade away.
[G] My hours were filled with constant dread.
[Am] Time became a knife [F] that slowly and relentlessly [E] _ cut the [Am] cord of life. _
There was a teacher in the region [Em] then.
[F] Some of us had heard [Em] that [Am] he'd healed a [C] paralytic by [F] the power of just his word.
[G] So with hope again rekindled, I went at once [C] to see [F] if I could find a man named [C] Jesus [E] from
a town [Am] in Galilee. _
_ I began to search the city.
[Em] [F] Soon I saw the crowd.
[Am] They were pressing in to touch him, [F] and they called his name out loud.
But [G] with the strength of desperation, I pushed them [Am] all aside.
[F] I threw myself before him, [E] and from my knees I [Am] cried,
Lord, come and heal my daughter.
Even [F] now she's close to death.
[Am] Her fever's uncontrollable.
[F] She fights for every breath.
[G] But God's given you the power.
Life is yours [C] to give.
[F] If you'll just lay your hands [E] on her, I know [Am] that she will live. _
She [G] will live.
[F] She will live.
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_ [F] _ _ _ [G] [A] He'd just begun to go with me when [F] a face I saw with [Am] fear came towards me with the [C] news
I knew [F] I didn't want to hear.
[G] And although I tried to steel myself, I trembled when he [Am] said,
_ _ [F] Why bother the teacher anymore?
[E] _ _ Your little girl [Am] is dead.
_ [Em] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ But then Jesus touched my [Em] shoulder, [F] and he told me not to grieve.
[Am] The trembling stopped when he looked [C] at me [F] and said, Only believe.
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Then he sent the crowds away, except his closest [C] men.
And they [F] followed right behind us, [E] as we started off again.
[Am] But we were still a [C] long ways down the [F] road when I heard the sounds and [Am] cries of the mourners.
And musicians as [F] they strove to dramatize [G] my grief.
They had no business with beneath their [Am] loud disguise. _
[F] And my wife just sat there silently, [E] _ _
stared [Am] through empty eyes. _ _ _ _ _
Then Jesus asked the mourners, [Em] [F] Why is it that you weep?
[Am] She isn't dead as you suppose.
[F] The child is just asleep.
[G] It only took a moment for their wails [Am] to turn to cheers.
Who does this man think he [F] is?
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Get [Am] him out of here!
_ Oh, will authority I've never [F] heard in the lips of any man.
[Am] He spoke, and every sound rolled [F] out with the thunder of command.
[G] _ Such silence, they all hurried [C] for the door.
[F] Wondering what the reasons were [E] they'd ever come there [Am] for.
_ Then he called his three disciples [Em] [F] that were with him on the way.
[Am] He led them and my wife and me [F] to where our daughter lay.
[G] He took her by the hand, told her child [C] to rise.
[F] And the words were barely spoken [E] when she opened up her eyes.
[Am] She rose and walked across the room [F] and stood there at our sides.
[Am] My wife knelt down and held her [F] close and at last she really cried.
_ [G] And then Jesus told us both to see.
Our daughter had some [C] food.
_ _ [F] As to how her life was [E] saved.
_ Not [Am] to speak a word, _ _ _ _ not to speak [G] a word.
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[C] But I gotta tell somebody.
_ _ Gotta _ tell somebody, _ _ _ _ [Ab] gotta tell somebody, _ _ _ _ [Bb] gotta tell somebody. _ _ _ _
[C] Gotta tell somebody, gotta tell [Ab] somebody, gotta tell [Bb] somebody, what Jesus [C] did for me.
Tell [Ab] somebody gonna tell [Bb] somebody what [C] Jesus did for me
Tell somebody [Fm] gonna tell [Bb] somebody what [C] Jesus did for me
When I tell [Fm] somebody gonna tell [Bb] somebody what Jesus [C] did for _ _ _ me _ You
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