Chords for Of Jesus Love That Sought Me (Sweeter As The Years Go By) - Martha Reed Garvin

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Of Jesus Love That Sought Me  (Sweeter As The Years Go By) - Martha Reed Garvin chords
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[Bb]
This is a request program.
[Fm] to drop me a note and let me know what you [Cm] like.
if you haven't [G] gotten my address, get your paper [Bb] and pencil and jot it down.
Oak Park, [Fm] Illinois [Eb]
60303.
not giving my address or not letting you [G] have time enough [Fm] to write it down.
This is a [Bb] request program.
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[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ This is a request program.
I have invited you [Fm] to drop me a note and let me know what you [Cm] like.
Get your paper and pencil out.
Now if you haven't [G] gotten my address, get your paper [Bb] and pencil _ and jot it down.
It's real easy.
Musical Memories Box [Ab] 907, Oak Park, [Fm] Illinois _ _ [Eb] _ _
_ 60303.
I [Bb] have been chastised recently for not giving my address or not letting you [G] have time enough [Fm] to write it down.
[Abm] And you know why, of [Bb] course, [G] I like to sing.
This is a [Bb] request program.
And from _ [G]
Dot and Homer and Bill, the Combs family, says,
What a delight to listen to your beautiful program [E] each week. _
[Fm] Sometimes I'm on once a week, sometimes twice a week.
[G] One station I'm on every day.
And so they get it a couple times a week, I think.
And they said, Would you please sing _ one of our favorite songs, Sweeter as the Years Go By.
Now I have to back up one sentence.
It says, Thank you for singing all the verses.
So we wouldn't dare leave out any verse of [Bb] Sweeter as the Years Go By.
Sing [Eb] it with me.
[Fm] _ [Gm] _ [Cm] _
[Fm] _ [Eb] _ _ [Cm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ Of Jesus' love that [Gm] sought me [Ab] when [Eb] I [Gb] was [Bb] lost in sin.
Of wondrous [Eb] grace that brought me [F] back to his [Bb] fold again.
[Eb] Of heights [Ab] and [Bb] depths of mercy far [G] deeper than the [Cm] [G] sea.
[Ab] And higher [Eb] than the [Ab] heavens [Eb] my theme shall ever [Bb] be.
[Eb] _ Sweeter as the years [Ab] go _ [F] by.
_ [Bb] Sweeter [D] as the years [Eb] go [Gm] by. _ _
Richer, [Eb] fuller, deeper, [Ab] Jesus' love is sweeter.
[Cm] Sweeter [Fm] as the years [Eb] go by. _
_ _ _ [Fm] _ [Bb] _ [Eb] _ [Gb] _ [Bb] _
He _ [Eb] [Fm] trod an [Gm] old Judean [Eb] life's [Gb] pathway [Bb] long ago. _
The [Fm] people [Eb] thronged about him, [F] his saving [Bb] grace to know.
_ [Eb] He [Gm] healed the _ [Bb] brokenhearted and caused the blind to [Cm] [Eb] see.
[Ab] And [D] still his [Eb] great heart [Ab] yearneth [Eb] in [F] love [Bb] for [Eb] even [Cm]
[Bb] me.
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[F] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Dm] _ [D] _ _ [Eb] _
_ _ [Ab] _ [Eb] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [F] _ [Fm] _
[Eb] _ [C] _ _ [Bb] T [Eb]'was _ wondrous love that led him for us [F] to [Bb] suffer loss.
To bear without [Eb] a murmur [F] the anguish [Bb] of the cross.
[Eb] With saints redeemed [Bb] in glory let [G] us our voices [Cm] [G] raise.
[Ab] Till heaven [D] and earth [Eb] re _ [Ab] [Eb]-echo with our Redeemer's _ [Bb] [Eb] praise.
Sweeter as the years [Ab] go _ [F] by. _
[Bb] Sweeter as the years [Eb] go [Bb] by. _
_ [Eb] Richer, [Eb] fuller, [Ab] deeper, Jesus' love is [Am] sweeter.
[Eb] Sweeter as [Fm] the [Bb] years [Eb] go by.
_ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ [Bb] _
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ Sweeter as the years go by.
I often think [D] that that reminds me of Bill Gaither's song,
The Longer I Serve Him, The Sweeter He Grows.
And in my mind, and of course this one, Sweeter as the Years [N] Go By, is much, much older.
In fact, it was written by Lilia Morris.
Remember one time we did a complete program of her songs.
She happened to have been a blind hymn writer, and as she was doing housework,
that's familiar, isn't it girls?
As she was doing housework _ in her blindness, _ _ _ she would always have paper and pencil down.
And as a thought came to her mind, she [Fm] would write them down somehow,
so that she would be able to go and work on a song, and apparently Sweeter [B] as the Years Go By.
As she was doing her housework, this is the way she felt.
_ And I thought it really is quite like The

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