Chords for John Michael Talbot - Holy Is His Name (The story behind the song.) LIVE

[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] Well, _ _ _ _ [G] I kind of like this one.
_ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ My _ _ _
[D] soul _ _ proclaims [G] the _ greatness [D] of the Lord, _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] And my spirit _ _ _ _ exults in God my [D] Savior,
_ _ For _ _ _ He has looked _ _ [G] with _ mercy on my [D] lowliness, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And my name will be _ _ _ forever _ _ _ exalted. _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] For the [D] _ _
mighty [G] God _ has done [D] great things for me, _ _ _ _ _
_ And His mercy _ _ will [A] reach from [G] [D] age to _ _ _ age. _ _ _ _
_ [G] And [D] _ _ holy, _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] holy, _ [A] _
_ _ [G] _ holy _ [D] _ _
_ is _ _ His name.
_ _ This is probably my most popular song.
It's sung all over the world [G] in all kinds of languages now.
_ A lot of [Dm] people think I must have been like, you know, in my [A] hermitage when I wrote [D] this song.
I spent a lot of time in my hermitage.
Total solitude and reclusion.
I'll let you in [G] on a secret.
_ I wrote this song [A] at a house where I was staying [D] with some friends, a family.
They had 12 children _ outside of Loyola [G] Marymount in Los Angeles.
_ _ [D] _ And I wrote this [A] song at the breakfast [D] table. _ _ _
They were eating pancakes. _ _ _
[G] It was wild.
_ _ [A] There was butter _ [D] and syrup _ everywhere, _ _ including my beard. _ _ _
[G] And I'll never forget Sandy, the mom.
She was up at [A] the _
[D] _ grill or wherever they do the thing.
I have this image in my mind that she was taking pancakes and shooting them out to her children [G#] like a Frisbee. _ _
And so that's where I [D] was.
_ _ And [Gm] suddenly this song went [A] bang!
_ _ And it was [D] written.
_ See, Jesus can surprise us [Gm] anywhere. _
He can bring us contemplative [A] things, prayerful things.
[Dm] Right in the midst of [D] the activity and maybe even the chaos _ of daily life.
_ [G] So I want you to join and sing this with me.
Holy is His name.
[A] _ Mary dared to believe.
[D] Think about what happened to her.
The Holy Spirit overshadowed her.
She _ [G] conceived the word in her life.
She gave [D] birth to Jesus and there was no human [A] father at all.
This is [D] medically impossible.
Where are the impossibilities in our life?
The things that seem like it just can't happen.
_ [G] Let's dare to believe that all [D] things are possible with [A] God.
Not [D] only in other people's lives, _ but in our life, in our parish, _ in our world.
Sing with me now.
Holy is His name.
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ Sing holy. _
[A] _ _ [D] _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _
_ [B] Holy.
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _
[G] _ [Dm] Holy _ _ _ [A] _ _
is _ _ [D] His _ name.
_ _ Once more, lift your hands up. _
_ _ _ _ _ Sing holy.
_ _ [G] Beautiful.
_ [F#m] _ _ _
_ _ [B] Holy.
_ _ [F#m] _ _
_ [D] _ Holy _ _ _ [A] _
_ is _ [D] His name.
_ Now just our voices and our hands. _
_ _ [G] Sing holy. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Holy _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ is His name.
_ [N] You know we have a lot of trouble with singing in the Latin rite of the Roman Catholic Church, don't we?
We need to sing better.
We're going to talk about that tomorrow night.
And we're going to do some singing. _
But you know where they don't seem to have this problem?
It's where they don't have instruments.
Where all they have is the human voice.
Because there's something wonderful that happens when it's only the human voice and our voices coming together in harmony, in communion _ with each other, in He who is the singer of the great song.
So raise your hands again and let's sing it one more time.
Lift your voices and feel the mystery _ of the music of the master musician, the great singer, all around you, all through the congregation. _ _ _ _ _
Holy _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
is His name. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Amen. _ _