Near the Cross (Live) Chords

_ [Bb] _ _ _ [Em] Listen, listen.
[F] _ _ And _ Jesus keep _ _ _ [Cm] _
[Bb] me _ near that cross _ _ [B] _
_ [F] _ there, _ [Am] _
[Dm] a _ _ _ _ _ precious _ _ _
_ _ [C] fountain [Bb] _ _
free, _ _ oh [E] Lord, to [F] all _
[Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
a [G] healing stream. _
They [B] tell me [F] it flows _ [Dm] from God.
[C] _ _
_ _ _ [C] He's _
[Bb] _ my_
_ [F] _
Can't you hear me singing?
Come on.
_ [F]
In _ _ the _ [Gm] cross_ Wonderful [F] Jesus.
_ [Bb] _
In _ _ the _ _ _ [B] cross _
[F] be _ _ [G] _
[Dm] my glory.
Oh, _ glory [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] ever, _ _ _ _
_ [F] until _ _ _
[Gm] _ [F] my wrath and [Cm] _ _ [Bb] soul _ _ _ shall find, _
[B] I'm gonna find [F] rest _
_ [G] _ _ [C] beyond.
Oh, [Em] hallelujah.
The [C] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [C] _ [F] river, _ _ [Ab] this [Db] verse, _ [Gb] _ _
near [Abm] the _ [Gb]
cross I _ [B] will watch _ and I will wait, _ _ [Ab] hoping, [Gb] _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ [Ebm] trusting _ _ ever,
ever, _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Db] _
till [B] I reach, come on, sing [Db] it, [Gb] until _ _ _ [Db] I [Gb] reach my money, _ that [B] _ _ [B] golden stream.
_ Just beyond the [C] river. _
_ [Gb] _ _ _ _ [Ebm]
Just [Db] beyond _ _ _ _ the _ [B] _ river.
[Gb] _ Sing it, everybody in the cross.
I'm _ in _ the _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ cross.
In the cross _ _ [C] _
_ [Gb] _ _ be _ [Ebm] my _ _ _ _ [Ab] glory ever.
Oh, _ _
_ [Abm] _ _ _ _ [Bb]
raptured [Ebm] soul.
_ Till [Eb] _
my _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ [B] raptured soul _ shall find rest.
Just think about it, [C] you're gonna [Gb] find rest.
_ [Ebm] _ _
[Db] Just beyond _ _ the _ _ _ [Ebm] river.
[Eb] Just beyond the river.
[Gb] In the cross, yeah.
_ _ _ In _ the cross.
[Bb] Yeah. _
[B] _ _ In _ [Eb] the cross.
_ _ [Cm] _ _
[Gb] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
[Ebm] _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] Oh, Lord Jesus. _ _ _
_ [F] _ Till my [Ebm] raptured soul, till [F] my raptured [Gb] soul, one of these sanctified [B] days, _ _ _ _ shall find,
_ _ I'm gonna [Ab] find [Gb] rest _ _ [Ebm] _ _
[Db] beyond _ _ [F] _
[B] the _ [Ab] _ [D] river. _
[Bb] _ Oh, yes, [Abm] I'm gonna find [Ab] rest.
Say it.
Be, [Db] _ declared, declared in the name of [Bb] Jesus.
From all your [Bb] toils and all your hard [Ebm] work.
_ _ _ [Ab] _ _
[Gb] _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _
_ [Db] _ _ _ _ [Gb] _
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ [D] _
_ Wade your [Ab] sorrows, goodbye, and [Gb] say rest [Ab] _ _ _
[Db] beyond _ _ _ [B]
the _ _ [C] river.
[D] _
_ [Ebm] _ _ Every [Ab] time you sing that song, _ you usually think about a funeral.
Most [Db] of you, you've got that on your mind right now.
Probably heard at the [Eb] last funeral you went, [Db] _
_ [Gb] somebody you loved died.
[Db] _
_ [Gb] You wish you could have told them just one more time.
I think of [Gb] _
people [B] releasing their loved ones. _ _
_ _ It's sorrow, but it's a [C]
sweet [Gb] sorrow because we know there's [Bb] rest.
_ [Ebm] The Bible says, blessed are the dead who die in the Lord for [Ab] henceforth now and forevermore.
They rest from their [Ebm] labor, _ [Db] but their works follow them. _
_ [Gb] They rest from their toil.
They [Eb] rest from their [Gb] sweat, but their works follow them.
In other [Ab] words, whatever they were working [B] on follows them into the presence of God.
And they go into that great cloud of [C] witnesses.
_ [Gb] Hand us the baton.
And I [Db] think they do something on the other side for us on this earth that they couldn't
have [F] done for us [Ab] while they were here.
[D] _
_ [Ebm] Can't you see a mother [Ab] rocking her little baby, almost lifeless body?
The [Db] doctor said, she's really brain [F] dead.
There's nothing we can do.
And the mama [Ebm] says, can I just hold her one more time, [Ab] please, before you take her?
[Gb] _ Tears are burning [Ab] down her cheeks.
[Db] And her only [Fm] consolation is to know [Bb] that that [F] baby who has laboriously [Ebm] breathed and struggled
for her last [Ab] breath now is finding [Gb] rest [Ab] beyond the river.
[Db] I don't know how I could face death without knowing there's [Bb] rest beyond the river.
[C] _ [D] I've had the _ [Ebm] _ _ _ [Abm] fascinating [Db] experience, however, sorrowful to be in the hospital [Ab] at the bedside
[Db] and watch loved ones pass away or members of my [Bb] congregation.
[F] I've been called just in time to see them [Ebm] _ laying [Abm] there [Gb] with their eyes as if they were
looking [Ab]
out the window [Db] right through me [Abm] or sometimes at the foot of the bed.
It's almost as if [Dm] they were seeing [Bbm] Jesus or maybe [Ab] some loved one that had gone [Db] on ahead.
Maybe the life support systems were still _ _ [Abm]
sounding and [Bb] the little [F] tiny beep of [Fm] a heart going.
[Ebm] Then [Db] after a while it flatlined [Ab] and they found [Gb] rest _ [Ebm] just beyond the river.
[Db] A little tear trickles down that [D] face [Eb] _ [D] and you want to say [Eb] goodbye, mama, [Ebm] goodbye, [Ab] daddy.
[Gb] I love you.
But they're not looking at [Ab] you.
They won't even [Db] change their eyes.
It's as if their [F] focus has put them [Ab] already in the other, in the presence of the Lord.
[D] _
[Ebm] And you just have to give your [Ab] hands up and say, Lord, [Gb] rest.
[Ab] Oh, hallelujah. _
[Db] _ Beyond that river.
[Bb] Come on, sing _ it.
Goodbye, [Ab] mama, goodbye, daddy. _
[Bbm] Goodbye, little boy.
Goodbye, [Dbm] little son of a gun.
Fire [Gb] it.
Oh, hallelujah.
[Ab] _ _
[Db] Beyond.
You're serving for 20 [B] years, 40 years, [C] 50 years.
[D] And [Fm]
oh, _ [Gb] I'm going to find rest.
_ _ _ _ [Db] _
_ _ _ Beyond that _ [B] _ _ [Db] _ _
[Gb] river. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Ab] _ Ernest L.
Mannstein, thank God for the rest that remaineth for the people of God. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Dbm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _