The Family Bible Chords by Merle Haggard & The Strangers

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_ _ _ _ [G] Now this song was written by a songwriter who I admire very much
He's one of the boys in our business
And I believe that like many of the old great hymns that people two or three hundred years from now will be singing
the family Bible
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_ There's a family
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Bible on the [C] table _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] Its pages are [D]
torn and hard
[G] to read _ _
But the [C] _ _ family [F]
Bible
on [C] the table _ _ _
_ _ [F] Will ever be [C] my key [G] to [C] memory _ _ _ _
_ [F] _ [C] At the end
of day when work [C] was over _ _
_ _ [Am] and when
_ [D] Evening chores were [G] finally done _ _ _
_ That [C] would read to [F] us from the [C] family Bible _ _ _
_ And [F] we'd count our [C] many [G] blessings
[C] one by one _ _
_ I [F] can see [Bb] us sitting
[F] round the table _ _
_ _ when from the family Bible dad [C] would read _ _
_ And I can hear [F] my mother _ [C] softly singing _ _
_ Rock of Ages, [F] _ [C] Rock of Ages [G] left [C] for me
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This old world
_ [F] Of ours is full [C] of trouble _ _ _
this [Am] old world
_ [D] would oh so [G] better be
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_ If we [C] had
_ more [F] Bibles on [C] the table and _
_ _ mothers singing
_ Rock of [G] Ages left [C] for me _ _
I
[F] can see [Bb] us sitting
round [F] the table _ _
_ _ when from the family Bible _ [C] dad would read _ _ _
_ I can hear my [F]
mother _ [C] softly singing _ _ _
_ Rock of Ages, [F] Rock [C] of Ages [G] left [C] for me
[F] _ _ [C] _
_ Rock of Ages, [F] Rock of Ages [G] left [C] for me _ _
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