Chords for I Choose To Be a Christian - Dan Dean

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_ _ _ _ _ _ I met a man the other day [Dm] who looked at me and said, _ [E] so many _ times I've seen your [Am] kind before.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ He said, [Am] you can't do this, you can't do that, [Dm] you're bound by rules and restrictions.
_ [E] What a dreary life you Christians must [Am]
observe.
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Am] Well, I looked him in the eye and I said, you're wrong.
[A] I can do anything that turns me on.
[F] I can smoke till my eyes [E] turn red and my face turns blue.
[Am] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Am] I can chew [A] and dip, snort and cuss, party all night until the sun comes up.
[E] But there's better things in life I'd rather [Am] _
[G] do.
_ [Am] _ _ _ I choose to be a Christian.
_ [Dm] I choose to [D] be like Him.
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Nobody's making me do it.
[A] This is [Em] how I want to [Am] live. _ _
You decide for you, _ _ [Dm] _
I'll [Am] decide for me.
_ [E] Since the choice is mine, this is what I choose [Am] to be.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] Well, I must admit, from time to time, [Dm]
the thought of heaven keeps me torn alive.
[E] That reward that's coming sounds too good [A] to be [Am] true.
_ [G] _ _ _ [Am] Oh, but if it was all just a _ fairytale, [Dm]
there was no heaven [F] and there was no hell,
[Bm]
I'd still be happy [E] living [Bb] like I do.
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ So [F] don't look at me in sympathy.
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Think that I've been cheated [Dm] by not doing all of those things that you [C] call fun.
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Some night when you're getting down _ [A] on the darkest side of hell,
this [D] choice I've made will be lifting me [G] out of here.
[F] _ _ [E] _ Oh, [Am] I choose to be a Christian.
_ [Dm] I choose [Am] to be like Him.
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_ Nobody's making me do it.
[Em] This is how I want to live.
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You decide for you, _ _ I'll decide for me.
[Dm] _ [E] Since the choice is mine, this is what I choose [Am] to be.
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_ _ _ Oh, [F] don't look at me in sympathy.
[Em] _ Think that I've been cheated by [Dm] not doing all of [D] those things that you call [F] fun.
_ _ _ [C] _ Some [F] night when you're getting down [G] on the [A]
darkest side of hell,
this [D] choice I've made will be lifting me out of here.
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Oh, [Bbm] I choose to be a Christian.
[Ebm] I choose [Gb] to be like Him.
_ [F] _ _ Nobody's holding [Gbm] a gun to my head.
[Gb] This is how [F] I want to [Abm]
live.
[Bbm] You decide for you, _
_ _ [Ebm] I'll decide for me. _
[C] Since the choice is mine, this is [F] what I choose [Bbm] to be.
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_ [Bbm] You decide for you, _
_ [Ebm] I'll decide for me.
[C] Since the choice is mine, _ _ [F]
this is what I choose _ _ _ to [Bbm] be. _ _ _ _
I choose to be like Him. _ _ _
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