Chords for Nearer To Thee

The [D#] _ _ _ _ _
minister _ was preaching _ and the [E] crowd was standing [B] near. _ _
[E] _ Congregation [B] was [G#] singing a tune and her [C#] voice was so loud [F#] and clear.
[B] You know the crowd that stood all around her, _
they were [E] crying at the pain [B] they see for [E] the song that they sang [B] was so [G#m] touching.
They were [B] singing [F#] nearer my God [D#] to thee.
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_ _ _ Some of them were crying but they [E] kept on singing [B] nearer my God to [E] thee.
And [B] oh yes dear, _ songs _ _ have a feeling.
There's [E] a story in every [B] song that we sing.
And songs have been known to lift heavy burdens.
In all of our [C#] troubles, in God we all [D#] are blamed.
[B] And if we all are Christian, we ought not to be ashamed.
[F#m] To lift [E] our voices in [B] my Jesus name.
We ought to be glad oh to sing [E] nearer, nearer my [B] God to [E] thee.
And I [B] have mercy Lord, keep on singing _ nearer, nearer my God to [E] thee.
I want to be nearer Lord, [B] and nearer to thee. _
Sometime I get so lonely Lord, but let me get nearer.
I want to get a little [F] bit nearer [C#] to thee Lord.
And [F#] come on Lord, [B] I want to be, I _ _ _ _ want [E] to be nearer Lord, and [B] nearer to thee.
I feel all my trials gonna be over now, if I can [E] get nearer.
I [F#] want to get a little bit [B] nearer to thee.
[E] And I have mercy Lord, _ trouble, _ and trouble is one thing that [E] comes into everybody's [B] life sometimes.
And even the rich now, and the poor life, help me Lord, they [C#] do not always [F#] have peace of mind.
[B] But my God told me, he told me these trials would come.
So [D#] I decided [E] that my God [B] will be done.
I'll never give up, every day I'm gonna get nearer.
Father let me get nearer to [E] thee.
I [B] tell him Lord, I'll be all right if I can get _ nearer, nearer my God.
I [E] want to be so nearer Lord, and [B] nearer to thee.
_ Sometime I feel like crying Lord, but let me get nearer.
I want to get a little bit [C#m] nearer to thee Lord.
And [F#] come on Lord, I want to be nearer my God.
_ [E] I want to be so nearer Lord, [B] and nearer to thee.
Oh oh oh' [F#] oh oh, come on Lord.
I'm trying to get a little [G#] bit nearer to [B] thee, and I have mercy Lord.
_ _ Sometimes I like to be in the company.
[E] And then again I, I like to still [B] off all alone. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ I'm trying to give it little to the second years,
_ thank you Lord.
[F#] I'm trying to give a little [B] to thee,
and I promise it all.
How come Lord do you know,
do you know that the fat and the poor beneath
will [E] make a good child,
a good child [B] go to sleep.
But I don't care what that,
what that child may do,
that [C#] mother's heel cradle,
they all look [F#] at me,
what did that [B] child do to her mother,
no matter, it's no matter what the father,
what they say, who's [E] that child,
mother say that child,
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_ _ that's my boy, that's [E] my boy,
that's walking there,
[F#] mama let him get there.
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_ _ _ _ little boy [E] mother used to steal off _ [B] all alone.
I used to wonder what my mother was [C] doing.
I [C#] grubbed out one morning I found mother was [A#] folding on [B] and mother had her eyes up she was
looking up toward the sky and I [E] saw the tears that they fell down [B] my mother's eyes but I can still
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I'm _ trying to get a little closer _ _ _
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