Chords for Safe in the Arms of Jesus - Martha Reed Garvin

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_ _ If you have a request, please drop me a note, Box [Gb] 907, Oak Park, Illinois, _ _ 60303.
Drop me a note and say, just like Mrs.
[Ab] Jones did, _ Martha, will you please sing Pearly White City?
That's all it takes.
And I have, I like [F] to say I have, let me get it right, hundreds of [Ab] books and thousands of songs.
And I probably have your very favorite song.
And so I love to do them. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Db] You know, I love [C] Fanny Crosby.
You know that, [B] don't you?
Because I do a lot of her songs.
_ [B] I came across this week a poem written by Fanny Crosby.
[F] _ _ _ _
You do remember that she was a blind child. _ _ _
She and [A] her grandmother were very, very close.
_ [G] I think her grandmother took care of her when she was a child. _ _ _
[Dm] And so this poem was Grandma's Rocking Chair.
[G] _ _ _ _ I am thinking [C] of a cottage in a quiet country dell, and a [G] brook that ran beside it, that I used to love so well.
_ _ I have sat for hours and [C] listened while it rippled at my feet, and I [G] thought no other music in the world was half so sweet. _ _
There are [Dm] forms that pass before me, those are times I yet recall.
But _ the voice of gentle Grandma _ I remember best of [C] all.
In her loving arms [Dm] she held me, and beneath her patient care I was born away to [G] dreamland.
In her dear old rocking chair.
[C] _ _ [G] I am thinking of a promise that I [D] made when last [Dm] we met.
_ "'Twas a rosy summer twilight that I never shall forget.
_ _ "'Grandma's going home,' she whispered, and the time is drawing nigh.
[C] _
_ "'Tell me, darling, will you meet me _ in our [D] father's house on [Dm] high?' _ _
She was looking down upon me for a moment, [G] all was still.
_ _ Then I answered with emotion,
_ _ "'By the grace of God I will!'
she [Dm] clasped me to her bosom, and we [G] bowed our head in prayer, _
where we also knelt together _ by her dear old rocking chair.
_ [Dm] _ _
She has passed the veil of shadows, [G] _ _
she has crossed the narrow sea,
_ and [C] beyond the shining river she [G] is waiting now for me.
_ _ _ _ But in fancy I recall her, _ _ and again we kneel in prayer, _ _ _
[Dm] while my heart renews its promise _ by her dear old rocking _ [A] chair."
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ Fanny [Am] Crosby sung.
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [C] Safe in the [F] arms [C] of _ _ Jesus, [G] _
_ [C] _ safe on his _ [Em] gentle [Dm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ breast,
[C] There _ [Em] by his [C] love, or _
[D] _ [C] shaded _ _ [F] _ _ [Dm]
sweetly, my [F] soul [G] shall _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] rest.
Hark!
[D] tears the _ voice [G] of _ [D] _ angels [E] _ _ [D] _ born in _ [A]
song to _ _ [G] me, _ _
_ [Em] Over the fields [C] of _ glory, [Am] _ _ _ _ [D]
over the _ jasper [Em] sea,
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [C] Safe in the [F] arms [C] of _ _ [Am] Jesus, _ [Em] _ _ [C] safe on his gentle [Dm] _ breast,
_ [G] _ _
_ _ There by his love, _ or [Abm] _ _ [Gm] shaded _ _
[F] _ _ sweetly, my [G] soul [C] shall rest.
[F] _ [Dm] I'm glad you've tuned [C] in.
This is Musical Memories, and [F] I'm Martha Reed Garvin.
I'll see you next [G] time. _
_ [C] Jesus, [C] my _ soul's dear _ _ _ _ [F] refuge, _ Jesus has [A] died [Dm] for _
[F] _ _ [G] _ me.
_ [C] Firm [C] on the [Em] rock [C] of _ _ ages, _ _ _ [Dm] ever [F] my song [C] shall be. _ _
Here [G] _ _ let me [D] wait with [G] _ _ _ patience, _ _ [D]
wait till the _ night is [Em] _ _
over.
[A] _ _ [G] _ Wait till I see the [C] _ _ [Em] _ [Am] morning _ _ [D] _ break on the _ _ [G] edge of _ _ [Dm] _ _
[C] the earth.
Safe in the arms of _ _ Jesus, _ _ _ safe on his [Am] gentle _ _ _ [G] breast,
[A] _ _ [Em] There [C] by his love, or _ _ [E] shaded sweetly, my soul shall rest.
_ [G] _