Chords for Southern Gospel Music - The Old Gospel Ship

_ _ _ [D] _ Welcome to Strolling Down [A] Memory Lane.
_ _ This program [F#m] features hand [B] clapping, foot stomping, down south gospel music.
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And gospel [G#] ragtime piano [A] playing as only Billy Pollard can play.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ This [F#m] program is [A] produced by Willie Pollard. _ _ _
[E] And now, here's your host, [A] Billy Pollard. _ _
_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ [F#] _ Welcome to this week's [N] edition of Strolling Down Memory Lane.
We got a good program, don't we dear?
We do have a good program, at least we feel that we do have a good program.
And I'm sure we'll receive some letters or emails saying how this program was a blessing to someone.
We have some special guests on the program, as we always do.
We've dug back in the archives on some of these.
Yeah, this first one is one of the favorites here on Memory Lane.
We wish we had some new clips of these guys to use, but they're no longer together as a group, my understanding is.
They don't play music right now, and they play hardly. That's right.
But anyway, this is Bill Joloff, 15-year-old, Jacob Henry on that mandolin.
And they're going to do an old Memory Lane song that's sure to bless your heart.
And I think it's a Mother Maybel Carter song that she sang many times.
And it's simply entitled, The Old Gospel Ship.
So enjoy the Joloff Band from Newburgh, Oregon. _
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_ I have good news to bring, and that is why I sing.
My joy with [B] you I'll share. _ _
[E] I'm going to take a trip on that old gospel ship and go [B] sailing [E] through the air.
_ I'm going to take a trip on that old gospel ship, going far [B] beyond the skies.
_ [E] I'm going to shout and sing until the heavens ring, and I'll bid this world goodbye.
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_ Now I can hardly wait, I know I won't be late.
I'll spend my time and [B] bread.
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And when my ship comes in, I'll leave the world of sin.
I'll go sailing through the air.
_ _ I'm going to take a trip on that old gospel ship, going far beyond [B] the skies.
[E] I'm going to shout and sing until the heavens ring, and I'll bid this world goodbye.
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If you are ashamed of me, you ought not to be.
You better have [Bm] a cap.
If [E] too much fault you find, you'll soon be left behind.
I'm going to sail [G#] it through the [E] air.
_ _ I'm going to take a trip on that old gospel ship, going far [B] beyond the skies.
_ [E] I'm going to shout and sing until the heavens ring, and I'll [B] bid this [E] world goodbye.
And I'll bid this world goodbye. _
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