Chords for KYLA ROWLAND/GOLD CITY |ONE SCARRED HAND|

And [Bm] he held his hand up to me and his [F#] face was just red, his blood in his eyes were watering.
You know, I just, [B] it's hard to love him right at that [F#] moment.
And he said, Mom, why don't you come in here?
[B] He said, I can't handle you anymore.
I can't handle your preaching.
I'm leaving and ain't nothing you can do about it.
We didn't have no money, had a little old [F#] rattletrap of a car.
Where was he going to go?
[E] What was he going to do?
I knew what he was going to do.
He was going to [B] drink liquor and smoke dope and just [E] do everything that the world, the
world will lure for Barry somehow.
_ [B] So he left.
[F#] Next morning I went to work and I had not slept that night, just like I did that night.
I wrote, He'll Row [Gm] You Over the Tide.
But I laid my head down on my desk.
My left eye was swollen shut.
And [G#m] I said, Lord, I don't have a prayer this morning.
Have you ever been so hurt [B] and so emptied out?
You didn't have a prayer.
But I said, I'd appreciate it [F#] if you'll help me make it to five o'clock because I need this check.
[B] I needed that check.
Help me make it.
And I [G#m] had my eyes closed and then [E] I began to see things.
I saw [B] one thing.
I saw Jesus.
I didn't see his face.
I didn't see him, [C#] but I knew in my heart he [E] was standing there.
He didn't send the angels.
He [F#] didn't send the Holy Spirit.
I know what those feel like.
This was him.
_ And I saw [B] just kind of a shadow of a hand and I saw a shadow of a scar.
He spoke to me and [E] he said, you know the world, don't they think we're [B] crazy?
Oh, honey, I'm not crazy.
I saw the hand of God, the shadow of it.
[E] I saw the shadow of the scar.
And he said, if you'll lay Barry right here, I'll take care of him.
[B] And I just turned around to my typewriter and I wrote, he is a fountain for a thirsty soul.
He is a healer.
[F#] Four years he was gone.
Did I [E] pray for him?
No.
Why should I pray and worry and [B] cry and beg God?
He was in God's hands.
God was far more able and capable of taking care of my son.
All I did for four years was [E] thank God for what he was doing in my son's life.
I got a call a few days before [B] Christmas.
Big old deep voice.
I said, Bubba, is that [F#] you?
He said, yeah.
He said, [E] I'd like to come home for Christmas if you'd let me.
I said, well, let you, let you.
What are you talking about?
Let you.
And you know, women can [B] get silly when they get nervous.
And I said, well, I'm going to clean your room.
I will fix your dumplings.
And I was just rattling.
I wasn't saying nothing.
I was just rattling.
I was so excited.
Christmas morning, I saw a little truck pull up.
It's big long, a whole drink of water.
Honey, I leaped off the porch and I grabbed him and I kissed his cheeks and his [D#m] nose and
his eyeballs and his ears and everywhere I could kiss.
I just can't tell you.
I can't [E] tell you.
And I leaned back and I looked up in his face and the tears had run down here till they
were in one [C#] big long stream right here.
And those were the prettiest eyes I believe I've ever seen in my [B] life.
They were like a crystal azure blue, innocent [E] eyes.
I said, Bubba, [G#m] what has happened to you?
He [E] finally got it out.
He said, Mama, _ I finally made it right with the Lord.
[F#] _ _ _
[B] Oh, I wish I could tell you how he was called to sing.
Barry wasn't called to preach.
We all knew [C#] that.
But [F#] he was called to sing when he was two years old.
Boy, [B] he took a long way around.
Barry Rowland, you be listening [E] for him.
I don't [B] brag on my songs, but I'm brag on his because he sings my songs. _
[B] _ [E] He works so good, [B] Jeremy.
You know, works so good and everything. _
I'm going to tell you what.
_ God can do anything.
And if he did it for me, if he did it for my mother, and we ain't nobody's, he'll do
it for you.
Do not limit the hand of God.
Israel, that was their biggest [E] mistake.
In Psalm 78, he was writing once again about how they limited.
[E] He had so much more [C#] that he wanted to give them.
He had blessings untold [E] stored up in heaven that he [A#] wanted to pour on his beloved nation, Israel.
[B] But they limited his hand.
I don't want to limit it.
[E] I want all that [B] he can give me because, honey, [C#] he is a fountain for a thirsty soul.
He's a [C#] healer, and I'm in the palm of his hand.
I'm engraved in there.
[G#] And so is my mother.
He is [D#] a [G#] fountain for a _ thirsty _ soul.
[F] He [D#] _ _ is a _ healer, and [G#] so _ _ much [F] more.
When [G#] my _ _ [Gm] heart is broken [G#] by this [D#] _
[G#] world's _ demons,
the [D#] _
pieces are [A#] mended here, _ [D#] one _ [G#] scar left. _ _ _
[A#m] And [C#] when [G#] I can't stand the _ _ [D#] _ truth,
[C#] _ _ I [F#] _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ [D#] must [G#] _ _
[C#] believe.
_ _ _ The great _ _ _ _ physician's touch _ is a [F#] fountain.
_ [C#] And [F#] _
[C#] broken _ _ _ [A#m] hearts _
[F#] [C#] with [G#] one [C#] scar left. _
_ _ [D#] _ _ _ [B] _ _ _
[E] _ [A] It's a _ [B] hand [A] that held [E] this whole world in place. _
[F#] [E] It's a [B] hand that was scarred [A] just to give me grace.
[B] And [A] to think a hand that holds the stars [E] _ is small _ _ enough to [A] mend one _ broken _ heart.
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] When I can't stand the _ _
[Em] truth,
_ [E] _ and [G] when I'm _ _ [D] seeing _ [A] _ _ _
[D] me,
_ _ I must believe.
[A] The [D] great _ _ _ physician's touch _ is a _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ _ [A] _ _ fountain.
[Bm] And broken hearts _ [A] with one _ _ [D] _ _
[E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [C#] _ [D] _
[A] scar [D] _ left.
He's a fountain [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ [Bm] _ [Em] with _ [A] one scar _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ left.