Chords for Testimony (Tony Evans) | Promise Keepers
Tempo:
81.5 bpm
Chords used:
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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I was born in the inner city of Baltimore, Maryland,
in the ghetto.
[Bb] I was going nowhere.
My mother and father fought like cats and dogs.
I remember now how they got on each other,
fist [Ab] fights, knife fights, everything,
and they were on their way to a divorce.
[Eb] But one day my daddy went to work,
and it was a white man who sat down next to him and said,
if you died right now,
do you know whether you'd go to heaven?
My father said, I can't say that.
I know I'd go to heaven,
and that day he shared the good news of Jesus Christ
with my daddy.
My daddy accepted Jesus Christ as his savior,
and we knew the man who went to work that morning
was not the same man who came home that day.
The only time my father could read the Bible
was at two [F] in the morning when my mother would sleep.
He would get up, he would come downstairs in order [Ab] to pray,
and one of his prayers was,
Lord, if you give me the strength,
I will, [Eb] by your grace, save my family,
but I can't do it apart from a miraculous intervention by you.
[Eb] My mother made life miserable,
but a year later, he heard her coming down
at two in the morning while she was reading her Bible.
He thought to himself, oh no, here we go, another battle.
But this night was different
because when she came down, she was crying.
He said, what's wrong?
[F] She said, every time I hate you, you love me.
Every time I reject you, you accept [Fm] me.
Every time I turn you away, you pray for me.
She said, I have been watching this,
thinking this was just some religious fad you were on,
but you have been [Bb] nonstop at this for a year,
so whatever this is [Fm] you have must be real.
How can I have it [Eb] right now?
Now all these things with my mother.
Let her debate in Christ, and she became a fruitful vine.
They gathered me and my siblings around the table,
witness to us.
We accepted [Ebm] Jesus Christ as our Savior.
[Eb] All of a sudden, our home on that inner city block
was unlike the rest of the homes on that inner city block.
I [Cm] became the first person in my family
to finish high school.
Then I became the first person in my family
to graduate from college.
Then I became the first African American
to get a doctorate degree from Dallas Theological Seminary
while working on my doctorate.
We started a church with 10 [Bb] people in my house
that's now over 5,000 today.
While [Eb] we were developing the church,
we started [Ab] the radio broadcast that's now heard
in 450 stations across America
and 40 countries [Bb] around the world.
Now I didn't tell you that to tell [Fm] you about me.
I told you that to [Dm] tell you about my daddy.
You see, he learned to fear God.
When he [Bb] feared God, his mother became a fruitful vine,
[C] I became an olive plant.
He then took us and raised us in Zion,
and that's the reason I'm in the [F] community
in the ghetto.
[Bb] I was going nowhere.
My mother and father fought like cats and dogs.
I remember now how they got on each other,
fist [Ab] fights, knife fights, everything,
and they were on their way to a divorce.
[Eb] But one day my daddy went to work,
and it was a white man who sat down next to him and said,
if you died right now,
do you know whether you'd go to heaven?
My father said, I can't say that.
I know I'd go to heaven,
and that day he shared the good news of Jesus Christ
with my daddy.
My daddy accepted Jesus Christ as his savior,
and we knew the man who went to work that morning
was not the same man who came home that day.
The only time my father could read the Bible
was at two [F] in the morning when my mother would sleep.
He would get up, he would come downstairs in order [Ab] to pray,
and one of his prayers was,
Lord, if you give me the strength,
I will, [Eb] by your grace, save my family,
but I can't do it apart from a miraculous intervention by you.
[Eb] My mother made life miserable,
but a year later, he heard her coming down
at two in the morning while she was reading her Bible.
He thought to himself, oh no, here we go, another battle.
But this night was different
because when she came down, she was crying.
He said, what's wrong?
[F] She said, every time I hate you, you love me.
Every time I reject you, you accept [Fm] me.
Every time I turn you away, you pray for me.
She said, I have been watching this,
thinking this was just some religious fad you were on,
but you have been [Bb] nonstop at this for a year,
so whatever this is [Fm] you have must be real.
How can I have it [Eb] right now?
Now all these things with my mother.
Let her debate in Christ, and she became a fruitful vine.
They gathered me and my siblings around the table,
witness to us.
We accepted [Ebm] Jesus Christ as our Savior.
[Eb] All of a sudden, our home on that inner city block
was unlike the rest of the homes on that inner city block.
I [Cm] became the first person in my family
to finish high school.
Then I became the first person in my family
to graduate from college.
Then I became the first African American
to get a doctorate degree from Dallas Theological Seminary
while working on my doctorate.
We started a church with 10 [Bb] people in my house
that's now over 5,000 today.
While [Eb] we were developing the church,
we started [Ab] the radio broadcast that's now heard
in 450 stations across America
and 40 countries [Bb] around the world.
Now I didn't tell you that to tell [Fm] you about me.
I told you that to [Dm] tell you about my daddy.
You see, he learned to fear God.
When he [Bb] feared God, his mother became a fruitful vine,
[C] I became an olive plant.
He then took us and raised us in Zion,
and that's the reason I'm in the [F] community
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I was born in the inner city of Baltimore, Maryland,
in the ghetto.
[Bb] I was going nowhere.
My mother and father fought like cats and dogs.
I remember now how they got on each other,
fist [Ab] fights, knife fights, everything,
and they were on their way to a divorce.
[Eb] But one day my daddy went to work,
and it was a white man who sat down next to him and said,
if you died right now,
do you know whether you'd go to heaven?
My father said, I can't say that.
I know I'd go to heaven,
and that day he shared the good news of Jesus Christ
with my daddy.
My daddy accepted Jesus Christ as his savior,
and we knew the man who went to work that morning
was not the same man who came home that day.
The only time my father could read the Bible
was at two [F] in the morning when my mother would sleep.
He would get up, he would come downstairs in order [Ab] to pray,
and one of his prayers was,
Lord, if you give me the strength,
I will, [Eb] by your grace, save my family,
but I can't do it apart from a miraculous intervention by you.
[Eb] My mother made life miserable,
but a year later, he heard her coming down
at two in the morning while she was reading her Bible.
He thought to himself, oh no, here we go, another battle.
But this night was different
because when she came down, she was crying.
He said, what's wrong?
[F] She said, every time I hate you, you love me.
Every time I reject you, you accept [Fm] me.
Every time I turn you away, you pray for me.
She said, I have been watching this,
thinking this was just some religious fad you were on,
but you have been [Bb] nonstop at this for a year,
so whatever this is [Fm] you have must be real.
How can I have it [Eb] right now?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Now all these things with my mother.
Let her debate in Christ, and she became a fruitful vine.
They gathered me and my siblings around the table,
witness to us.
We accepted [Ebm] Jesus Christ as our Savior.
[Eb] All of a sudden, our home on that inner city block
was unlike the rest of the homes on that inner city block.
I [Cm] became the first person in my family
to finish high school.
Then I became the first person in my family
to graduate from college.
Then I became the first African American
to get a doctorate degree from Dallas Theological Seminary
while working on my doctorate.
We started a church with 10 [Bb] people in my house
that's now over 5,000 today.
While [Eb] we were developing the church,
we started [Ab] the radio broadcast that's now heard
in 450 stations across America
and 40 countries [Bb] around the world.
Now I didn't tell you that to tell [Fm] you about me.
I told you that to [Dm] tell you about my daddy.
You see, he learned to fear God.
When he [Bb] feared God, his mother became a fruitful vine,
[C] I became an olive plant.
He then took us and raised us in Zion,
and that's the reason I'm in the [F] community
in the ghetto.
[Bb] I was going nowhere.
My mother and father fought like cats and dogs.
I remember now how they got on each other,
fist [Ab] fights, knife fights, everything,
and they were on their way to a divorce.
[Eb] But one day my daddy went to work,
and it was a white man who sat down next to him and said,
if you died right now,
do you know whether you'd go to heaven?
My father said, I can't say that.
I know I'd go to heaven,
and that day he shared the good news of Jesus Christ
with my daddy.
My daddy accepted Jesus Christ as his savior,
and we knew the man who went to work that morning
was not the same man who came home that day.
The only time my father could read the Bible
was at two [F] in the morning when my mother would sleep.
He would get up, he would come downstairs in order [Ab] to pray,
and one of his prayers was,
Lord, if you give me the strength,
I will, [Eb] by your grace, save my family,
but I can't do it apart from a miraculous intervention by you.
[Eb] My mother made life miserable,
but a year later, he heard her coming down
at two in the morning while she was reading her Bible.
He thought to himself, oh no, here we go, another battle.
But this night was different
because when she came down, she was crying.
He said, what's wrong?
[F] She said, every time I hate you, you love me.
Every time I reject you, you accept [Fm] me.
Every time I turn you away, you pray for me.
She said, I have been watching this,
thinking this was just some religious fad you were on,
but you have been [Bb] nonstop at this for a year,
so whatever this is [Fm] you have must be real.
How can I have it [Eb] right now?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Now all these things with my mother.
Let her debate in Christ, and she became a fruitful vine.
They gathered me and my siblings around the table,
witness to us.
We accepted [Ebm] Jesus Christ as our Savior.
[Eb] All of a sudden, our home on that inner city block
was unlike the rest of the homes on that inner city block.
I [Cm] became the first person in my family
to finish high school.
Then I became the first person in my family
to graduate from college.
Then I became the first African American
to get a doctorate degree from Dallas Theological Seminary
while working on my doctorate.
We started a church with 10 [Bb] people in my house
that's now over 5,000 today.
While [Eb] we were developing the church,
we started [Ab] the radio broadcast that's now heard
in 450 stations across America
and 40 countries [Bb] around the world.
Now I didn't tell you that to tell [Fm] you about me.
I told you that to [Dm] tell you about my daddy.
You see, he learned to fear God.
When he [Bb] feared God, his mother became a fruitful vine,
[C] I became an olive plant.
He then took us and raised us in Zion,
and that's the reason I'm in the [F] community