Chords for Jim Hamill Tribute

_ _ _ _ _ Excited, excited and ready to go to the Jubilee in heaven.
Oh, I tell you what, we've had a great time here tonight.
I don't know when we've ever enjoyed singing any more
than we have here in Springfield, Missouri.
I tell you, got my crank turned, got me feeling good.
I'm glad I'm saved tonight.
I'm glad I'm on my way to heaven.
I'm glad I'm headed for that Jubilee.
I'm glad I'm headed for heaven
where there's no more sickness and death and dying
and heartache and pain and sorrow.
Leaving the world of heartache and disappointment,
you say, oh, I don't like all that loud racket.
I like everything quiet and dignified.
Hope they put you right next door to me in heaven.
Right next door, somebody that'll raise a wind
and shout glory right in your face every morning.
Oh my, boy, if you think you gotta go around all the time
with a long face, you don't have religion,
you got indigestion.
We got something to be happy about.
We got something to get excited about.
God's alive and Jesus saved. _ _ _
_ [Bbm] God blessed us.
Had a lot of [Eb] great, wonderful years singing.
_ [Bbm] And then all of a sudden,
[Ab] he decided [Eb] everybody needs a burden to bear.
[G] _ _ [Ab] And [C]
I wound [Ab] up hiring this next guy. _ _ _ _
And what made it worse,
these two of them come along about the same time.
But I wish you'd welcome here into a new era
[Db] are two [Fm] new guys,
_ Ray Dean Reese [Bb] [Fm] and [Eb] Big Lawrence James Hamill.
_ [Abm] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
_ Big Jim, he's been with the [Db] Kingsmen for 22 years.
[D] He's a valuable man.
I'm proud to [Gm] call him friend.
And [Ab] I'm proud that he's a part of the Kingsmen.
_ [Eb] Hamill, I don't know what you can say about Hamill either
[Ab] that hadn't already been said.
The guy's a nut, an absolute nut.
Big Jim Hamill, he and I have [Bb] been together [Ab] for,
well, he's been here 21 years.
[Cm] And [Gb] I've been around him all those [Ab] 21 years.
And it's just a pleasure to be with him.
And he's a [Db] great guy and a hard worker
and a great Christian man.
So [Eb] finally, my grandmother, I went over to [Ab] her house
and _ she had some old 78s.
_ She _ had the Chuck Wagon Gang and the [E] Kingsmen. _ _ _
_ Jim Hamill [Ab] was on both of [F] them. _
_ _ _ [Bbm] _ [C] ♪ And see _ the lights of hope _ ♪
♪ I can [F] see _ _ God on [C] His feet ♪
Hold it, hold it.
Start that chorus over, I [N] like that.
[G] ♪ _ _ I [C] can see _ the [F] lights [C] of hope _ ♪
♪ I [F] can see _ _ God [C] on His _ throne ♪
♪ I am [G] too _ near to turn [Am] _ _
_ back now ♪
♪ I'm afraid to [D] lose someone alive _ [G] ♪ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ ♪ _ He's got to [G] _ [C] _ _
[F] save my life _ in the world [C] I see ♪
♪ Oh, let me stand by Him, let me _ _ _ _ _ _ stand by Him ♪
♪ Oh, [A] let me stand by [D] _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ [G] _ _ [Bb] _ [Fm] _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ _ Him, let me stand by Him ♪ I see. _ _
_ I'm sorry to mess up your program, [F] Greg. _
[N] Greg's _ _ got everything timed.
Perfect.
_ _ _ _ Used to, Fox would get me at the table on the bus
and say, okay, you do this and this and this.
Greg gives me a computer printout. _
I _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ said, Greg, I'm gonna need about 10 minutes.
He said, you got eight minutes and 32 seconds.
_ _ _ But anyway, I wouldn't trade the time I've spent
with _ Fox and Greg and the rest of the people.
Perk, _ I believe you're the greatest tenor I've ever heard. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Look out over this crowd and see so many of you
that _ 25, 26 years ago when _ things weren't going too good
and take us in, feed us,
I didn't weigh but 130 pounds till we started that.
_ _ _ And all these guys up here, they've added to my life.
_ _ It's just, it's been great for me.
And I won't take any more time,
but _ some of the greatest men, the greatest talent
[Eb] _ right here.
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _ [Dm] _
_ [Dbm] _ [A] _ _ [Bb] _ I _
[Gm] [F] was sinking _ _ [Bb] so _
_ _ [Cm] deep [Bb] in sin. _ _
I was far _ _ from the peaceful _ _ [F] _ shore. _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _
Buried deeply _ [Cm] _ _ [F] stained _ _ with sin.
_ [Ab] _ _
[F] Sinking _ _ [Eb] to [Dm] rise [Cm] _ [Bb] _ _ no _ _ [F] more.
_ [D] _ [Bb] But _ _ _ [F] the master _ _ [Bb] _ _
of the _ sea,
he heard this old sinner's evil [Eb] _ cry. _ _ _ _
_ _ And _ _ [E] from the _ sea.
[Bb] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Eb] A guy that moved here [Bbm] in 1971 _
and has been a guiding hand
_ in what the Kingsmen have [Eb] done all these years.
Retired this year at the Quartet Convention.
And we never [C] did anything [Bbm] for him.
So we [Db] thought while you folks are all here that love him,
we'd like to make him a presentation.
It says, appreciation [Eb] to James E.
Hamill, Big Jim.
[Ab] For over 25 years of faithful service
to our Lord and to Kingsmen,
[Fm] your dedication and your service will always be remembered.
Your guidance [Db] and willingness to extend the [Ebm] parameters
has always been one of the major [Ab] reasons
for the success of the Kingsmen.
God be with you.
All your [Eb] remaining years, you will [Ab] always [Bbm] be a Kingsman.
And it's signed to all the guys, November 9th, 1996.
[Eb] _ How _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ [D] do you want Jim [E] Hamill to be remembered?
_ As _ [A] _
_ somebody that is honest
[Gbm] and somebody that _ [Db] lives for Jesus
and [F] somebody that [A] has tried to portray
[Gb] and live the message [Bm] in the songs that we sing.
And that'll do [Db] for me.
They don't have to say [Gb] Hall of Fame [A] or nothing else.
Just that he lived for Jesus
and [Bm] sung what he lived and lived what he sung. _
And I _ owe _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
to _ _ _ [A] _ Him. _
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