Chords for Shouting John - "Hold My Mule" - Shirley Caesar

_ I just want to take time [Ebm] _ _ _
to tell you [Eb] a story about a man [Eb] called John John.
_ _ _ John joined a dead church that he believed in shouting, _ that he believed in dancing and
speaking in tongues. _
But when they opened the doors of the church, John [Ab] joined that church.
[Ebm] _ _ _
_ _ _ And when John joined that church, he came in dancing.
_ _ _ _ And he got disturbed because [Eb] _ [Ebm] John was dancing all around the church.
_ [Eb] The deacons ran, sat him down, he jumped back up.
They tried to hold his legs, his hands were going.
When they turned their hands loose, their feet were going.
_ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
_ [Ebm] They [Ab] did [Eb] everything they could to [Ab] stop old John from shouting.
[Eb] _ And when they couldn't find a stopping, they made up in their mind, [Ebm] we've got to go out
to John's house, [Eb] y'all.
But something is wrong with him.
Doesn't he know?
[Ebm] We don't act [Bb] like that in our church.
[Ebm] Doesn't John know?
We've got dignitaries in our church.
We're going _ [Ab] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Eb] to John's house.
Well, when they got out there, [Ebm] they found this old 86-year-old [Bb] man, [Eb] him and an [Ab] old beat-up
mule [Ebm]
plowing, _ _ [Eb] _ _ _ _
plowing [Eb] in [Ab] the field.
_ They drove up out of the [Bb] deacons.
They got out of their flying cars.
[Ebm] They walked over to John.
John looked around, it's a whole mule.
Walked over to him and said, brethren, I know why you've come out here.
[Eb] You've come out here to tell me that I [Ebm] praise the Lord too much.
You've come out here to tell [Eb] me that I dance too much.
One of the deacons told him, if you don't stop shouting, if you don't stop dancing,
we're going to put you out of our [Ab] church.
Somebody say yeah, _ [B]
say [Bb] yeah.
_ _ [Ab] Say the Lord gave me all of this.
_ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ _ _
John said to them, _ well, [Ab] put me out.
[Eb] _
I can't hold my peace.
Did you see all of that land [Ab] you just drove up on?
[Ebm] He said, God gave me all that.
[Eb] But you don't want me to [Ebm] dance in your church.
He said, look at my sons and [Bb] daughters.
He said, God [Eb] gave me all of my children.
Not one time have I been to the [Ebm] courthouse.
Not one [Eb] time have I been to the cemetery.
But you don't want me [Ab] to dance in your [Eb] church.
Then he said, look at me.
I'm 86 years old.
I'm still a little tough.
So I'm down to have that old mule.
I'm still a little tough.
So I'll harvest my own crop.
But you don't want me to [Ebm] dance in your church.
Listen, brother Deacon, [Eb] if I can't shout in your church,
[E] hold [Eb] _
my _ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
mule.
[Eb] _ Hold my mule.
Hold my mule.
That's the way I feel right now.
I feel like going to shout and jump.
[Ebm] I know we got some dignified folk in here.
But I [Eb] come to tell you, I feel my [Bb] praise and praise in here.
_ Oh, [Cm] I feel like praise and praise in here.
[Ebm] Praise in the morning.
Praise in the [Gm]
morning.
[Cm] Praise all the morning.
I feel [E] like praise [Bb]
in here.
_ I'm going to praise the Lord while I've got a chance.
Come on, church.
Oh, I'm going [C] to praise the Lord while I have [Gm] a chance.
_ [Eb] Praise _ the [Cm] _
Lord.
I feel [Fm] like praise [Bb] and praise.
Let me hear you moan a little.
_ _ [Bbm] _ Well, John, just dance all over that [Cm] place.
Begin to walk about Zion. _
That's kind of how I feel.
[Db] [Eb] I feel like walking about Zion.
_ _ [Cm] _
It's not a shame to walk around with me.
Come here, son.
[Bb] Just walk around Zion.
_ _ [D] [Bb] If you don't want to praise him, don't [G] hinder me.
_ If [Cm] you don't want to praise him, don't hinder me.
_ [D] _ [Eb] _ _ I [Cm] feel _ _ _ _ [Fm] like praise and [Eb] praise in here.
_ _ _ _ I _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ [Cm] _ _ [Gm] _ _ [Cm]
want to sing it, Bob.
_ _ _ [Eb] _ _ [Gm] _