Chords for He's Alive

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