Chords for Rev. Julius Cheeks & The Four Knights / The Last Mile of The Way Part I

_ _ [D] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Church, _ _ I'd like to tell you something right now.
[B] _ _ [D] _ _ [E] The reason I'm telling you like [E] this,
_ _ _ I promised the Lord
_ _ _ [B] when I was sick, [E] sometimes I _ _ _ _
yeah, _ where I go _
I _ tell dying men and women
_ _ about your goodness. _
_ [D] Now [A] Church, [B] _ _ [E]
listen to me for one minute. _ _ _ _ _
Sometime ago
_ _ _ I laid in a hospital
_ _ _ _ so sick
_ that not one doctor, _
_ not two doctors, _ _
not ten,
_ _ but the whole hospital
_ _ _ turned their back on _ _ _ me.
I was so sick _
_ they called down to South Carolina
_ _ _ _ _ called my sisters and my brothers _ _ _
told them
_ _ if you want to see him breathe
_ you better get him out of the hospital.
_ _ Church,
_ they came
_ _ by buses, _ _
by trains,
_ _ and by automobiles.
_ _ I don't remember _
but when they got there
_ they told me
_ _ that they told my sisters and brothers
that there's no use of going in that room.
_ _ The boys are already dead.
_ _ _ They tell me
_ that my sisters and brothers
_ _ left out of my hospital room _
_ drinking kill
_ for what?
_ _ Going back
_ to that different home
_ looking for my body. _
_ Listen here [A] Church,
_ [E] them old mean doctors
_ _ told the nurse
_ to push my cot _
into a dark corner.
_ _ That ain't all they done to me.
_ _ Told them
_ to pull down the window _ _
in my room
_ _ That ain't all they done.
_ They cut out the lights
_ in my room. _ _ _
Oh they done.
_ _ They left out of my room
the _ [C#m] door [E] behind
_ to make sure
that nobody else get in [Em] there.
_ [E] Good God, oh my.
_ Said you know one thing
that I'd be dead
_ at 5.30 the next morning.
_ I don't know how _
_ _ I _ don't know how
_ _ 3 a.m. _
to light the house
and the window down
and the door locked. _
I had a visit _ Oh Lord _
_ somebody somebody
_ _ came in my room touched _ me _ touched me
_ Good _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ God, oh [E] my. _
[D] Look here
[E] _ they tell me
you know one thing
_ at 5.30 the next morning
when I was supposed to be dead _
the nurses came
with the orderly boys
and they cut
_ _ behind them
_ coming
_ to take me to the mall.
_ They were so sure
that I was dead
they ease the key _
and the door
_ pushed the door open.
You know what
when they got to my bed
you know what they saw
_ Oh _ _
me and Jesus
sitting on the side.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
You know what Jack
_ 10 days went by
they came [A] back one Monday morning
[E] _ said look here [A] preacher
_ [E] we come to carry you home.
They had a wheelchair
I _ told them _
what you gonna do with this wheelchair.
_ They explained to me
that the rules of the hospital
we got to roll you to your car.
I told them oh no _
_ oh no
they said look here preacher
if you're not gonna get in the wheelchair
_ what you gonna do.
[Em] I [A] stood [E] up
on the side of my bed
and looked to the [Em] hill
from which it come my strength
_ [D] stretched my arm
[E] said father
[B] _ _ _ _ _ Lord have mercy
_ _ father
_ _ _ [E] _