Chords for The Ben Fuller Story - 3 Minute Testimony
Tempo:
111.525 bpm
Chords used:
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Em
F#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[G] Home [C] was a small town called Perkinsville, Vermont.
troubled kid inside.
[D] I hit a lot of things.
lot of [C] people to open up to.
everybody liked, [C] and I was a popular kid
[Em] beautiful girls.
team,
My [C] father and I had a tough relationship, and only in the [F#] sense that I just had a hard
troubled kid inside.
[D] I hit a lot of things.
lot of [C] people to open up to.
everybody liked, [C] and I was a popular kid
[Em] beautiful girls.
team,
My [C] father and I had a tough relationship, and only in the [F#] sense that I just had a hard
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_ _ _ _ [G] _ Home [C] was a small town called Perkinsville, Vermont.
_ I was a _ _ troubled kid inside.
[G] _ _
_ _ [D] I hit a lot of things.
I didn't have a lot of [C] people to open up to.
[F] I was always somebody that everybody loved and everybody liked, [C] and I was a popular kid
in school [G] and dated [D] _
[Em] beautiful girls.
And I was, you know, on the outside it all looked good, a captain of the football team,
all those [D] things.
But on the inside, I was a giant wreck.
My [C] father and I had a tough relationship, and _ only in the [F#] sense that I just had a hard
time relaying love, I think.
[G] And so I [C] had a hard time [Em] receiving that.
And [Bm] I would take those things and internalize them.
So at a young age, 18, 19 years old, I [Em] had found out about cocaine.
[G] So I went on a giant _ _ 15 [C]-year using bend.
[D] [C] I didn't grow up in church.
[G] My family, we went to church for funerals and weddings.
I learned to play guitar in college, and that became an outlet for me.
[C] _ [G] I moved down here in the fall of 2018 for country music, and I was drinking heavily,
out of control, drinking and driving a lot, still using, _ [C] _ _ still taking advantage of women.
[D] _
It all just led up to so many different things.
I had a family, believe it or not, God had sent a family from Vermont [F#] a [C] year and a half
ahead of me to be down here to earn my trust, to then invite me [G] to church [C]
in the fall, winter of 2019. _
And I walked in to Church of the City in Franklin, Tennessee here.
I'll [G] never forget Chris McClarnie, John Reddick, we're leading worship.
[C] _
All of my hope is in the name, the name of _ _ Jesus.
And I just [G] had all I could do to not fall on my knees.
I have a song called Other Plans, which isn't released yet, but I hope to, and it talks
about my brush with suicide when I was 16 years [C] old. _ _ _
_ [G] And I'd been in some of those lowest, darkest places, _ and _ he allowed me to open up and finally
share with everybody about all those things that had been burdening me for so many years.
The old man's laying on the ocean [D] floor, the new [G] man's standing on redemption shore.
I've been revived, I've been restored, and I can't go back no [C] more, no [G] _ more.
I lost my best friend in 2017 to a heroin overdose, and it was one of the hardest things
to get over and one of the hardest things to cope with, to know that it could have been me. _ _ _
And he laid it on my heart that it's my job to tell his story [C] and mine and just [F#] let people
know [C] that [G] there is hope, that there's always [C] hope, and it's in Jesus.
And [G] I never thought in a million years I [C] would say that out loud.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
_ I was a _ _ troubled kid inside.
[G] _ _
_ _ [D] I hit a lot of things.
I didn't have a lot of [C] people to open up to.
[F] I was always somebody that everybody loved and everybody liked, [C] and I was a popular kid
in school [G] and dated [D] _
[Em] beautiful girls.
And I was, you know, on the outside it all looked good, a captain of the football team,
all those [D] things.
But on the inside, I was a giant wreck.
My [C] father and I had a tough relationship, and _ only in the [F#] sense that I just had a hard
time relaying love, I think.
[G] And so I [C] had a hard time [Em] receiving that.
And [Bm] I would take those things and internalize them.
So at a young age, 18, 19 years old, I [Em] had found out about cocaine.
[G] So I went on a giant _ _ 15 [C]-year using bend.
[D] [C] I didn't grow up in church.
[G] My family, we went to church for funerals and weddings.
I learned to play guitar in college, and that became an outlet for me.
[C] _ [G] I moved down here in the fall of 2018 for country music, and I was drinking heavily,
out of control, drinking and driving a lot, still using, _ [C] _ _ still taking advantage of women.
[D] _
It all just led up to so many different things.
I had a family, believe it or not, God had sent a family from Vermont [F#] a [C] year and a half
ahead of me to be down here to earn my trust, to then invite me [G] to church [C]
in the fall, winter of 2019. _
And I walked in to Church of the City in Franklin, Tennessee here.
I'll [G] never forget Chris McClarnie, John Reddick, we're leading worship.
[C] _
All of my hope is in the name, the name of _ _ Jesus.
And I just [G] had all I could do to not fall on my knees.
I have a song called Other Plans, which isn't released yet, but I hope to, and it talks
about my brush with suicide when I was 16 years [C] old. _ _ _
_ [G] And I'd been in some of those lowest, darkest places, _ and _ he allowed me to open up and finally
share with everybody about all those things that had been burdening me for so many years.
The old man's laying on the ocean [D] floor, the new [G] man's standing on redemption shore.
I've been revived, I've been restored, and I can't go back no [C] more, no [G] _ more.
I lost my best friend in 2017 to a heroin overdose, and it was one of the hardest things
to get over and one of the hardest things to cope with, to know that it could have been me. _ _ _
And he laid it on my heart that it's my job to tell his story [C] and mine and just [F#] let people
know [C] that [G] there is hope, that there's always [C] hope, and it's in Jesus.
And [G] I never thought in a million years I [C] would say that out loud.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _
