Chords for How Can I Hold My Peace - The McGruders

I think we ought to pray.
In fact, that's what they call this singing.
Can I pray with you?
Gospel singing.
Prayer is the hope of this nation.
The exodus of prayer marks the death of a nation.
For the nation that forgets God shall be turned into hell.
But if we'll remember God, [A#] I want to tell you something about the God I serve.
[B] He's not a Pentecostal God.
He's not a Baptist God.
_ He's not a Protestant God or a Catholic God.
He's not a God of the Jews, but not of the Gentiles.
He isn't a Catholic God.
[G#]
He's not a God that's good to one and not to all.
[B] He's a God who is all God, [N] all the time.
He's a merciful God.
[B] And you know something about the mercies of my God?
[G#] They're brand new.
They're fresh every morning.
It [B] doesn't make any difference what yesterday [D] held or [G#m] what you did yesterday or what your [E] past agrees.
You can come to God in prayer.
And one prayer, yeah, He does [Em] reach further down, Brother Johnson, [F] than we can reach up.
One prayer makes a difference.
It'll change a [B] sinner into a saint.
_ _ One prayer will turn defeat into victory.
_ One prayer will turn loss into profit.
One prayer will turn evil into good.
It'll turn disease into [E] healing.
Somebody may have come here tonight saying, well, you know, if I could just believe it's really real.
I've heard about it since I was a child, if I could just believe it's real.
Well, I really believe that you ought to see, you [B] should see, you must see a miracle tonight in this place.
How many of you would like to see a real, validated, bonafide, proven [N] miracle?
Raise your hand. _ _
Right there, look at [B] one.
January of 2000, the doctor [B] said she had cancer, breast [E] cancer, stage 4, and they said she's got two months to live.
But five years later, just the other [A#] day, the [Em] oncologist told her, Priscilla, you really are a miracle.
[N]
You don't have any cancer anywhere in your body. _ _
You're not the same woman I looked at five years ago.
_ Oh, what a difference He makes in my life.
[B] Ronnie Millsap can sing it on stage just like this one about love or about a woman.
But I'm here to tell you about the Holy Ghost and the power of God.
What a difference it makes [N] in my life.
He's become my [B] healer.
He's become the [F] perpetuation for my sin.
[B] Oh, [Cm] hallelujah.
How many of you feel like the Lord's been better to you than anyone?
Come on, sing with me.
[Cm] How can I hold my [C] peace?
When He's done so much for me, how can [Gm] I hold my peace?
When He washed my dirty teeth, how can I hold my peace?
When my soul found victory, I asked [F#] you, how can [D#] I hold my [G] peace?
I've got to tell it.
How about you?
Sing it, girl.
Sing [Cm] it.
I've got to tell it, [C] what the good Lord's done for me.
_ [Gm] I've got [C#] to sing it, shout it, set my spirit [G] free.
One [C] drop of blood, that's all it took.
[F] When my soul passed, [F#] how, I asked [Am] you, how can I [C] hold my peace?
[G] Sing it, somebody.
Sing it.
How can [C] I hold my peace?
When He's done so much for me, how can [G] I hold my peace?
When He bought my [Gm] liberty, how can [C] I hold my peace?
When my soul found victory, I asked [F#] you, how can I [C] hold my peace?
[G] Listen up now.
Listen up. _ _
_ [C] How can I hold my peace when the race is almost to run?
[G] How can I hold my peace when the crowd is almost to run?
[Cm] How can I hold my peace [F] when the job's already [F#m] done?
I [D] asked you, how can I hold my peace?
Any of you feel that [C] way, if you do, sing it.
[A] Come on.
How can I hold my peace?
When He's done so much for me, how can [G] I hold my peace?
When He bought my liberty, how can [C] I hold my peace?
When my soul found victory, I asked you, how can I hold my peace?
I love this part.
[G] This is my favorite part of the song.
_ [C] Gonna sing it on the mountaintop, tell it everywhere [F#m] I go.
How can I hold [C] my peace?
Come on, everybody.
[A#] Give me another one of those.
Gonna [E] sing it on the mountaintop, tell it everywhere [F#] I go.
How can I hold [C] my peace?
Now break it down.
Let's sing.
Come on.
How can I hold my peace?
When He's done so [C] much for me, how [G] can I hold my peace?
When He bought my liberty, how [Cm] can I hold my peace?
[C] When my soul found victory, I [F#] asked you, how can I hold [C] my peace?
I love [C] this part.
How can I hold my peace?
Yeah, let that one go.
[F#] Hey, let that one go.
[C] We better sing some more there.
_ Hallelujah!
Hallelujah!
_ [N] Hallelujah!
_ _ [F#] _ _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
How [C] can I hold my peace when the race is almost arrived?
[G] How can I hold my peace when the crown is almost a war?
[Cm] How can [C] I hold my peace [F] when the job's [F#m] already done?
I [Gm] ask you, how can I hold [C] my peace?
Somebody sing it [Dm] over here!
How can [C] I hold my peace when he's done so much for me?
How can I [G] hold my peace when he bought my liberty?
How can [C] I hold my peace when my soul's bound to reach?
I [F#] ask you, how can I hold my peace?
[C] Here comes the fun [G] part!
Come on, get on it right here!
Come on!
_ I'm gonna sing it on the mountaintop, tell [F#] it everywhere I go!
How [D#] can I hold my peace?
One more [G] time, everybody!
One more!
[C] I'm gonna sing it on the mountaintop, tell it everywhere [F#] I go!
How can I hold my peace? Everybody!
_ [G] How can [C] I hold my peace when he's done so much for me?
How [Gm] can I hold my peace [G] when he bought my [Gm] liberty?
How [Cm] can I hold my [F] peace when my soul's bound [C] to reach?
I [F#] ask you, how can I hold [C] my peace?
Lord, yes, [G#] yes!
How can I hold [C] my, my, my, my, my, my, yes, [F#] Lord?
How can I [C] hold my peace?
_ I'm gonna sing it again, one more time!
_ _ [N] _ Yes!
Come on, if Bob Keats is he's the only one who deserves our adulation! _
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
_ Sweet peace!
_ [N] _