Chords for praying grandmother

_ _ Hallelujah.
_ _ Hallelujah.
_ _ You
know, when I think about it, [Em] I
started in the church [B]
as a
little girl, 7 years [F#m] old and
grandmother used to take me to
church back in Tulsa, Oklahoma
and I used to sing for [Em] the
lord and I used to [Bm] sing in the
adult choir and [F#m] I love the lord
with all my heart.
By the time
I [G] was 9 years old, I was gung
ho and my grandmother even said
to [F#m] me one day, she said, you
know, baby, god's going to use
you one day and II didn't [B] know
what she meant but I knew I
liked the sound of god using me
_ [B]
by the time I was 11 years old,
[F#m] my mother and father and [A] my
five brothers and my little
sister, we moved from Tulsa to
California.
My my dad's [F#m] job is
transferred him out here and by
the time I was [B] 12 years old, I
found myself in the [Em] nightclubs
in Los Angeles. _
[F#m] My mom and dad
used to go to the clubs on the
weekends.
They didn't [Bm] know the
lord Jesus and grandma wasn't
around [E] anymore.
So, we just
quit going to church.
_ [D] I was in
the nightclubs at 12 years old
and that was the worst place [E] and
the last place I needed to be
but [D] I had a praying [Em] grandmother
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
by the time [Bm] I was 13 years old,
I had [Em] recorded my first single
and [F#m] began to open up for people
like Stevie Wonder and Aretha
Franklin, BB King, and Bill
[B] Cosby and I remember opening up
for him one time and [F#m] things
began to happen.
[F#] Hallelujah. _ _
[Em] Things began to happen all
around me.
_ [F#m] The devil had a trap
set. _
He [Em] was going to set me up
because see I liked it.
I liked
the money.
I was making a [F#] lot
of money and I like the [E] glamour
and I like [G] the applause because
[D] that said I love you.
_ We [Em] all
want to be loved. _ _
[F#m] Hallelujah.
_ I
didn't know [Em] that Jesus loved me.
_ [F#m] I didn't know it then.
When I
was 16 years old, I had had a
baby out of wedlock and [Bm] by the
time I was 17 [F#m] years old, I left
home and [E] joined the cast of hair
and I began to travel [B] all across
the country.
[E] _ I was making [Em] more
money than my mom and dad put
together by then and things were
looking pretty good.
[E] Then, I
was introduced to marijuana.
I was introduced to marijuana.
_ Devil had a trap [F#] set.
Next
thing I know, it was [Em] pills.
Pills to get up in the [D] morning
and [E] pills to go to bed at night.
Then, it was the [G] alcohol and
then I became very promiscuous
and ran [B] around with a lot of
people.
I had no business being
[Em] with and [E] 1 day, I was
introduced to cocaine and I
know [F#] that all drugs are a
part of the spirit [Bm] but this
cocaine became my best friend
[F#m] and I began to hang out with the
devil and I [Bm] did everything that
I was big and bad enough to do.
[G] _ I'm [C#] not glorifying him.
I'm
just letting him know that I
don't belong [Em] to you. _ _
_ [F#m] Hallelujah.
_ _ _ I've been set free.
_ _ Hallelujah. _
Glory to God.
_ _ I went on for about 12 [Bm] years of
my life and I traveled with
people and I [F#m] worked with
Shaka Khan and Rufus and I worked
with Captain and Tenille [G] and all
the people in the studios and I
[Bm] was good at my job and I was
quick and I could demand double
triple scale and I went to work
and I was high every day.
_ The devil was [F#m] trying to kill me
but I had a [Em] praying grandmother.
[E] Never turned her back [F#m] on me.
Hallelujah.
_ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ _ [Bm] _ One time when I was in Houston,
Texas, [C#] I met a man there
and I was getting ready to go on the road [B] with Shaka
Khan and there was a group [Em] going
on the road with us, Heat Wave, and
they [F#] had a man working with them and
he was doing their lights and he,
I [E] didn't know this, but I met him on the road and he
was a nice [F#m] guy and
you never [Em] would know it to look at him but he was
[F#m] also, not only was a light [Em] director
but he was a cocaine dealer.
See, devil knows how to really
do it.
So [Bm] we
began to be friends and [B] we began to
date and I began
to get [F#m] all the cocaine I wanted
[F#] for free.
How many of you know
it wasn't [D] for free?
_ [E] _ _ _
[A] _ _ But we [C#] came home, me and this young
[Bm] man and we began to live [G] together
and he [C] was
still selling drugs and I began to
make drops for him.
I was dropping [Am] off
cocaine and making a lot of
[D#] foolish turns in my [B] life
and my life began to do this [Am] spiral.
Downward spiral.
[Bm] I was going to hell.
[D] One _
[E] _ _ _ [G] night as I was
getting loaded, I began
[G] to pass out
_ and my [B] head hit the wall.
And I began to slide down the wall
and as I came to
all of my bodily fluids were doing their own
[F#m] thing and I was dying.
But I had a praying grandmother
_ [Em] and I
knew enough to call
on the name of Jesus.
_ Holy name.
_ [E] _ It wasn't a couple of
days later that I was watching Christian [F#m] television
[F#] and grandma tells me
she was laying on her face during this time
and she had [D] been fasting for two weeks and just
calling on the name of Jesus.
Save my granddaughter.
[F#m] _ _
Save my granddaughter [Em] Jesus.
_ _ I watched Christian TV one [F#m] night and
it was as if God himself said that's enough
and he rebuked the [Bm] devil
from me long enough
for me to make an [E] intelligent decision.
I [F#] said Jesus _
I know you're real
_ _ [G] if you'll just take all [A] of this
away from me.
Take all of the drugs
take them away I'm tired.
_ [Bm] And I want you to know that [F#m] instantly
I was set free.
Instantly I was delivered.
Hallelujah.
[Em] _
Glory.
[F#m] Hallelujah.
_ [F#] Hallelujah.
This was [Bm] on a Friday night
and I want you to know
that not only did God [F#m] save and deliver
me and set me free
but he saved that drug dealer and he's my
husband [Bm] tonight.
James Staley.
Hallelujah.
_ [F#m] I'm by him.
Hallelujah.
[Em] Just hear the glory.
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _