The Calling Chords by Mary Chapin Carpenter

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_ [E] Deep [G] in your blood, [D] or a voice [G] in your head, on a dark, lonesome highway, [D] it finds you instead.
[E] So certain [G] it knows you, [D] you can't [G] turn away, something or someone [D] has found you today.
_ _ [C] _ [G] Genius to Jesus, [C]
maybe [G] he's seeing [C] us, but who [G] would believe [D] us, I can't [Am] really say.
[C] Wherever [G] the calling, [C] the stumbling [G] or falling, [C] you follow [G] it knowing [D] there's no other way.
[Bm] _ There's no [C] other way.
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_ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Em] There's zealots [G] and preachers [D] and readers [G] of dreams, [C] the righteous [G] yell loudest [D] and the saved rise to sing.
[Em] The lonely [G] and lost [D] are just waiting [G] to hear, [C] any moment [G] their purpose [D] will be perfectly clear.
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Life would [G] mean more [C] than their name on [G] their door, and that far distant shore [D] that's so near.
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They'd [G] hear the calling, stumbling and falling, [C] they'd follow [G] it knowing [D] there's nothing to fear.
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_ Nothing [C] to [G] fear.
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_ [G] I don't remember a voice [D] on a dark, [G] lonesome road, when I started the journey [D]
so long ago.
[Em] I was only [G] just trying [D] to outrun [G] the noise, [C] there was never [G] a question [D] of having a choice.
_ _ [C] Jesus [G] to genius, [C] maybe [G] they've seen me, [C] but who would [G]
believe me, [D] I can't really [Am] say.
_ [C] Wherever [G] the calling, [C] the stumbling [G] and falling, [C] I followed [G] it knowing [D] there's no other way.
Jesus to genius, [C] maybe [G] they've seen me, [C] but who would [G]
believe me, [D] I can't really say.
[C] Wherever [G] the calling, [C] the stumbling [G] and falling, I got through it knowing [D] there's no other way.
[Bm] _ There's no other [C] way.
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