Sweet Hour Of Prayer Chords by The Jackson Southernaires

_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
It was in the olden days [C#] when _
[E] _ sometime [G#m] we would be sitting around the old fireplace
[C#m] _
_ [C#m] and mother would say, children have you gotten your [E] homework done?
We would turn to [B] her and say, yes mother. _ _
Then she would tell us it's time [E] for bed.
We'd all join hands then.
_ [B] That was the _ [C#m] sweet [E] _
_ _ _ _ hour of prayer.
[B] Oh _ _ [E] _ _
how _ well do I remember, _ it was a [A] sweet _ _ _ _ _ hour _ [B] of _ [C#] _ _
_ [C#m] prayer.
Lord have mercy.
_ _ [F#m] _
_ That [E] called _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[E] me from [G#] _ a [C#m] _ _
_ _ great big [B] world. _ _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
A [B] world of care. _ _ _
And this is what I want all of my friends to do.
[E] Be at me.
_ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _
[B] _ Be at [E] me at _ _ _ my _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] father's. _ _ _ _ _ _
Be [B] at me at my father's [C#m] throne. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
Oh make [E] all, _ _ make _ _ _ [B] _ _ [G#m] all [E] my moves.
[G#] _ Please father, [C#m] _ please [B] son.
[E] And a wish, _ _ _ make all of my [B] wishes.
_ _ Lord [E] make all of my wishes known.
_ But mother used to pray [B] another prayer in a little white [B] church to sit out on her head.
[E] She would say, Jesus, _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
[B] you are my father.
_ Lord have mercy.
_ _ And I have been taught from childhood that thou shall [A] not have no other God before me. _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ Sometimes [C#m] she would look towards heaven and tell him, _ _ Lord [C#] go into the hospitals.
[E] _ _ _ And bless those who are lying down on the operating [D#m] table.
_ [E] _
_ _ _ [G#] _ _ [C#m] Realize some of them are lying there, can't even, [B] can't even turn on their bed.
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ [C#m] But Lord I know [B] you are the doctor right now who is able to heal.
_ _ _ [E] _ Please Jesus, _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] realize [B] that I myself [D#] might have to come [E] down to a hospital bed one day. _
_ _ Oh Lord don't leave me.
[A] Please, _ please, please, please son.
[B] Stand by my bed Lord.
_ [C#m] _ _ _
_ _ Oh _ [B] Lord, [C#] I [E] want you to make all _ _ _ of _ [B] my _ [E] _ _
moves.
[G#] Lord make all [C#m] of my moves. _
_ _ _ [E] Amen. _ _ _
_ [B] Yes. _ _ _ _
Yes.
[E] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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