Mississippi Poor Boy Chords by The Canton Spirituals

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Lord, I'm just sitting here looking over my life, [Em] Lord. _
_ [G] _ _ Let me take inventory.
Can I take it?
Can I [D] take it?
_ [G] For I know you.
I know [Bm] you.
[G#] I know [G] you've been good to [Bm] me, Lord.
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[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[Em] I come from a poor family.
_ [Am] We didn't have much. _
[C] But the _ [D] Lord's been [Em] good to me. _
I come from a poor family.
We [C] didn't have much.
_ But the [D] Lord's been good to me.
[Em] _
I come from a poor family.
_ [C] We didn't have much.
But the _ [Bm] Lord's been [Em] good to me.
Let me tell y'all something.
_ [Am] I didn't have [Em] no money.
How many of y'all were [Am] like that?
A lot of [G] my [Em] friends thought that was funny.
_ [Am] But I'm so glad today [Em] that I can stand right here and say [C] that the _ [D] Lord's been good [Em] to me.
Let me tell you one more thing.
We were raised in [Am] a shack, y'all.
_ [Em] Sometimes cold within, but we [Am] put on our best.
Listen here.
[Em] Mama and Daddy, [Am] they done the best they could.
_ [Em] They always told me, [Am] son, always be [Em] good.
But out of all the things, [Am] _
I [C] know that the _ [D] Lord's been [Em] good to me.
Oh, you've been good.
_ Ain't God [Am] been good?
[G] _ [Em] How many of you know tonight _ that God's been good?
Let me ask you, did he bring you?
_ Did he bring you?
_ Did he bring you?
I'm [Am] not alone, y'all.
[Em] Oh, Lord.
_ I've been [Am] sick.
[G] And I've [Em] not been sick.
Did God bring you?
Let me tell you what he did for me.
He blessed me.
He [Am] blessed me, God.
[G] _ [Em] He blessed me.
_ Yes, he [Am] did.
[D] There have [Em] been times in my life, [Am] oh, help me, Lord.
[Em] Seems like every time that I got a [Am] nip up, [Bm] I had [Em] to end the night.
But let me ask y'all [Am] something.
[G] How many [Em] know God got power?
_ How many know he got power?
Let me tell you what he done for me.
Let me tell you what he done for me.
He healed my body.
_ What God [Am] healed.
[G] What [Em] I was a living for.
I [Am] had polyurethane right [Em] here.
Look at it.
Lordy.
_ _ Lordy.
_ _ Lordy.
Ain't God good [C] tonight?
[Em] _
Ain't God good tonight?
Ain't God good tonight?
Ain't God good tonight?
Let me ask you something [Am] tonight.
Anybody know about the rock?
[Em] Rock get away the land.
Anybody know about the bread?
Bread and a smile and a land.
Why can't I get one of that?
Why can't I get one of that?
Why [B] can't I get [Em] one of that?
I [A] don't mean to [Em] be nosy.
[A] I don't mean to be nosy.
[Em] I've been good to you.
[D] I've been [E] good to you.
[Em] If you know you've been good.
Let me tell you something.
_ Let me tell you something.
I [D] got one [Em] more question.
I got one more question.
I got one more question.
Can I ask you one question?
I don't mean to be nosy.
I don't mean to be [A] nosy.
Anybody got the Holy [Em] Ghost?
[A] Anybody got the Holy [Em] Ghost?
Holy [A] Ghost.
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_ [A] Yeah.
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[A] Wow.
[Em] Yeah.
_ [A] _ Out of all the [Em] things [Am] that I've got in life.
I [Em] know that [C] the [D] Lord's been good [Em] to me.
Thank you Jesus.
_ Thank you Jesus.
_ Ain't it been good?
_ Ain't it been good?
_ I tell you, you know what I tell him sometimes.
I may not have a Mercedes-Benz.
But I sure thank you for the little car you gave me.
I may not have a condominium.
But I thank you for my little house that you blessed me with.
Thank you Jesus. _
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_ _ _ _ _ [N] Yes sir.
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[E] _ [Em] I [D] come from a poor family.
I'm sure [C] you all come from a poor family.
[N] Get along [A] with me.
You come from a poor family.
[Em] Say yeah.
_ Say yeah.
_ [A] I can't [Em] hear you all.
_ _ _ _ _ You come from a poor family.
God's been good to you.
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