Chords for He's Alive! - Don Francisco

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