Chords for Mordecai

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_ We'd see him in the distance [C] on the trail along the rim his silver [Bb] head against the [F] mountain sky
_ [Bb] And grandma's face would open up and she saw that [Cm] it was him [Eb] and she'd say [Bb] that he grabbed a chair.
It's Mordecai
_ And it seemed to me he [C] brought a country store there on his back as he [Bb] laid it all before us [F] on the ground
[Bb] And I knew he finally reached [Eb] into that ragged old backpack for the candy that [F] he always [Bb] brought around _
He said [F] my papa was a wandering Jew [Eb] and it's my fate to be one [Bb] too.
I'll roam these mountain trails [F] until I die
_ _ Perhaps one day I'll see my [Eb] home and he smiled and turned [Bb] to go and we all [F] said goodbye [Bb] to Mordecai
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_ _ _ _ Even when he stayed with [Eb] us I saw [F] him at his prayers [Eb] as the last light [Bbm] trickled through [F] the cabin door
_ _ [Bb] He stood before the little [Eb] yellow candle burned and there softly speaking [F] words.
I'd never heard before
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I told him how my grandma said it troubled her mind.
So [Eb] such a fine [Bb] man wasn't washed in the [G] blood of the lamb
_ He smiled and said tell grandma if [Dm] it pleases [Cm] her to know that she and I both [G] pray to the God of Abraham _
[Bb] _ He [F] said my papa was a wandering [Eb] Jew and it's my fate to be [Bb] one too.
I'll roam these mountain trails until [F] I die
_ _ Perhaps one day I'll see my [Eb] home
Then he smiled and turned to [Bb] go and we [F] all said goodbye to _ Mordecai _ _
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It's been so long now since I've left that hillside far [F] behind for a [Bb] place I've never truly [F] called my home
And [Bb] more and more these days I see him walking [Cm] in my [Eb] mind through the misty [G] mountain distance [Bb] all alone
_ _ [F] _ Mordecai was a wandering [Eb] Jew in my own way.
I am [Bb] one too.
I hope to make it home before [F] I die
_ _ And if I finally find my [Eb] way I'll light a candle at his [Bb] grave and say one more [F] goodbye to [Bb] Mordecai _ _ _ _
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