Chords for R.W. Hampton Performs "The Master's Call" at the 2020 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Lightning flashed in hoops and circles.
Rain and sheets was coming down.
_ _ _ Thunder rattled through the gulches
as the hoofbeats shook the ground. _ _ _
Cowhands riding hail for leather,
begging God for the break of day.
The stampede beats the best camp meeting
[F] for getting men to [Gm] pray.
_ [Bb] When I was but a young [Gm] lad,
I was wild and full of fire.
[Bb] A youth within my teens,
but full of challenge and desire.
I ran away from home and [Gm] left my mother and my [Eb] dad.
I know [F] it gave them so to [Gm] think their only boy was bad.
_ _ [Bb] I fell in with an outlaw band,
[Gm] their names were known quite well.
[Bb] How many times they robbed and [Gm] plundered,
I could never tell.
[Bb] This kind of sinful living [Gm] leads only to a fall.
[Eb] I learned this [F] much and more the night [Gm] I heard the master's call.
_ _ _ [Eb] One night we rustled cattle, a thousand [Bb] head or so,
[Eb] and started them [Bb] out on the trail [Gm] that leads to Mexico.
[Eb] When an orther [F] started blowing, lightning flashed [Bb] about.
I thought someone [Eb] was calling [F] me.
I thought I heard [Bb] a shout.
_ At that moment lightning struck [F] not 20 yards from [Eb] me.
And it left there was a giant [Bb] cross where once there was a tree.
And this time I knew I heard a [F] voice, a voice so sweet and strange.
[Gm] A voice that called from everywhere, a voice that called my name.
_ _ _ _ [Bb] So frightened I was thinking [Gm] of sinful deeds I'd done.
[Bb] I fell to save a thousand [Gm] head of cattle start to run.
[Bb] The cattle they stampeded [Gm] were running all around.
[Eb] My pony [F] ran but stumbled [Gm] and he threw me to the ground.
_ _ [Eb] I felt the [Bb] end was nearing, that death would be the price.
[Eb] When a mighty [Bb] bolt of lightning [Gm] showed the face of Jesus Christ.
[Eb] I cried, oh [F] Lord, [Bb] don't let it happen now.
I want to [Eb] live for you [F] alone.
Oh God, these [Bb] words I've vowed.
My wicked past had fallen [F] and I thought I wasted years.
[Eb] When another bolt of lightning [Bb] killed a hundred head of steers.
[Gm] And the others rushed home by [F] me and I was left to live.
[Gm] The master had a reason life is his to take or give.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [Bb]
A miracle performed that [Gm] night I wasn't meant to die.
[Bb] The dead was formed a [Gm] barricade lay six or seven high.
[Bb] Right behind them there was [Gm] I afraid but safe and sound.
[Eb] I cried and [C] begged for mercy [Gm] kneeling there upon the ground.
_ _ _ _ [Bb]
Pardon I was granted, [Gm] my sinful soul set free.
[Bb] No more to fear the angry waves, [Gm] the long life storm he saved.
Forgiven by the love of God, [Gm] a love that will remain.
[Eb] I gave my [F] life and soul the night [Gm] the Savior called my name.
_ _ [Eb] I gave my life [F] and soul the [Gm] night the Savior [F] called my name. _
_ _ He called my name. _
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