Chords for Thank God For The Preacher

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Give yourself to suffering.
Listen, [D#m] if you don't give yourself to suffering, you'll probably
suffer more.
Once you give yourself to it, He knows your [C#] heart's in it, He may lift that
suffering.
[A#m] If you murmur and complain, He may leave you [F#] there for a while.
Give yourself
to [D#m] judgments and say, Go ahead, Lord, give me a good one.
[G#] I deserve it, just lay it on
me.
And you know [C#] what He might do?
He may lay the thick with [F#] down, [C#] love you up in His _ _ _
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After all, He just wants you to get right.
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[F#] _ _ _ I'm [D#m] sure we got something to shout about, sure we got something to sing about, [F#] sure
we got something to [G#] preach about.
[C#] _ _ [F#] It's the best thing that [D#m] ever happened to us.
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_ _ [C#] I walk down the [A#m]
sidewalk [C#] of a sin-stricken city, _ I see the _ _ _ [G#]
[F#] misfortunes of life.
[C#] _ _ [G#] A man in the _ gutter, _ laying their life loose, [F#] _ _
clutching a [G#] bottle in [C#] his hand.
[G#] _ _ [F#] [C#] Maybe some _ [A#m] mother's darling, [C#] maybe some young man's father, but now he's [F#] a prisoner _ to sin.
[C#] _ _ _ _ [G#] No hugs in the morning, _ no family _ altar, [F#] he's by [G#] the best that [C#] he can.
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_ _ [C#] _ _ [D#] Thank [F] God for [F#] the _ _ preacher _ _ _ [G#] who told me [C#] of _ _ _ _ _ Jesus, _ for I'd be [G#] a _ _ _ _ beggar _ if not for [C#] His _ _ _ _ grace. _
Lord, help me [F#] show _ of _ _ earth Your love and [C#] Your _ _ mercy, _ _ [A#m] _
_ make my life [D#m] a witness _
_ _ _ [G#] _ to _ others, [C#] I [F#] pray. _ _ _
[G#] _ _ _ _ _ [C#] At the little white [A#m] church house, [C#] at an old tear-stained altar, a prayer for God's mercy [F#] was _ heard. _
_ [G#] His sins were many and His burdens heavy, [F#] but He took [G#] the Lord at [C#] His word.
[C] _ _ [C#] The angels _
[A#m] rejoiced [C#] as His sins were forgiven.
_ The chalice filled the temple _
[F#] that day.
_ [G#] I will never get over that trip to the altar.
[F#] I was [D#m] that sinner _ [C#] who _ [F#] prayed. _
[C#] _ _ _ [G#m] Thank God for [F#] the _ preacher _ _ _ _ [D#m] who told me [C#] of _ Jesus, _ _ _ _ for I'd be [G#] a _ _ _ _ beggar _ if not for [C#] His _ grace.
_ _ _ _ _ Lord, help me [F#] show _ of _ _ earth Your love and [C#] Your _ _ mercy, _ _ [A#m] _ _
make my life [D#m] a witness _
_ _ [G#] _ _ to others, [C#] I pray. _ _ _ _ _
And Lord, help me [F#] show _ _ of _ _ earth Your love and [C#] Your _ [Cm] mercy, _ _
[A#m] _ _ make my life [D#m] a witness _ _ _ _ [G#] _ _ [C#] to others, I pray.
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_ On the seventh-floor [C#] back of Bible Baptist Church, the old preacher preached the hell out of me, amen?
[F#] And I called on [C#] God, and God saved me! _ _
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