Chords for The Steeles - A Hundred Different Altars (STORY BEHIND THE SONG)
Tempo:
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[C] A hundred [G] different people at [Am] a hundred [Em] different altars.
[G] I [C] attended a songwriters retreat [D]
in May of last year, 2022, [G] in Georgia.
The retreat [E] was put on by my friend Joel Lindsey, who [G] is [D] quite a renowned [G] songwriter himself.
What [D] they do at these retreats is they [G] draw names [Em] out of a bucket and they [G] put you into groups of three.
[D] So you don't know who you're going to be [G] writing with.
You don't get to pick.
[D] They draw [F#] names out of a bucket.
[D] On this particular day, they drew my [G] name with Joel Lindsey, who was putting the [Em] retreat on,
and a guy named Brad [D] Guldamon, whom I had [C] never written with before.
[G] They drew our names and they sent us into a room the next morning to write a song [D] together.
[G] I've written with Joel [D] many times, and I'd never written with Brad before.
It's a different experience every time you go into [G] a room to write a song together.
We were just throwing around ideas [G] for songs.
[Em] I had had this idea [G] years ago for a song called A Hundred [D] Different Altars,
about a hundred [G] different people from a hundred [D] different altars, a [F#] hundred different [C] places,
places all [D] around the country, all around the world, [G] that they don't know each other.
They'll probably never know each other, [Em] and they're all going through different [D] problems.
They're all going through [C] different situations, but they're all going to [G] the same place for healing and relief and comfort.
Joel [D] and Brad really [G] took to [D] the idea and really,
[Em] really dug into it and [D] [G] explored the different issues and the [D] different people,
and even put names, [G] everyday names, that [Em] you'd hear every single day in your [G] life.
Sarah, Emma, [D] David, Peter, [G] names that you would hear in conversation every day.
[D] As many different issues as we could put into a three-and-a-half-minute [G] song.
In this song, you hear about addiction, you hear about a single [Em] mother, you hear about someone [D] who has been [C] unfaithful to their spouse,
you hear about all [G] sorts of different things.
[C] I think I always [G] tell people that you can either find yourself or [D] somebody that you really love in [G] this song.
[C] I love [G] that.
I love the message of hope [D] that God [Em] is big enough to [Dm] hear [G] all of these issues, all of [C] these problems, from all of these [D] people,
from all over the country [G] and the world, and He's big enough to take on all of those problems and bring peace and healing in every [D] situation.
I think [Em] that's a beautiful, beautiful message that we were [G] able to get out there.
Honestly, when [C] I went to this retreat, [D] I was not going to write anything for [G] us, [C] the Steeles, to do,
[G] because we were getting ready to pick songs for [D] a new album, and I thought we already had enough [Em] songs to pick from.
[Dm] But when [G] this song was written, I [C] just had a feeling, you know, this is a [D] special song, this is a special [G] message.
And [C] within three [G] days of the retreat, Wayne [D] Hahn, our producer, was sitting in our house [Em] listening to this song [G] on a demo,
and [C] it was a no-brainer [G] that we [D] were going to [Em] put it on [G] our new recording.
And, [D] you know, I think Joel said it was the quickest [Em] turnaround ever [Dm] from a retreat [G] to a [C] song getting placed [D] on somebody's album.
[G] It usually takes months [C] and years for a [G] song to end up to that point, but this song, it took [D] about three days.
It's just a [Em] special song, special message that [G] I hope [C] everybody is [G] just touched by,
[D] and I'm glad it's the first [G] single off of our album, A Hundred Different Altars.
At a hundred different altars, [D] one loving God of mercy meets them
[G] I [C] attended a songwriters retreat [D]
in May of last year, 2022, [G] in Georgia.
The retreat [E] was put on by my friend Joel Lindsey, who [G] is [D] quite a renowned [G] songwriter himself.
What [D] they do at these retreats is they [G] draw names [Em] out of a bucket and they [G] put you into groups of three.
[D] So you don't know who you're going to be [G] writing with.
You don't get to pick.
[D] They draw [F#] names out of a bucket.
[D] On this particular day, they drew my [G] name with Joel Lindsey, who was putting the [Em] retreat on,
and a guy named Brad [D] Guldamon, whom I had [C] never written with before.
[G] They drew our names and they sent us into a room the next morning to write a song [D] together.
[G] I've written with Joel [D] many times, and I'd never written with Brad before.
It's a different experience every time you go into [G] a room to write a song together.
We were just throwing around ideas [G] for songs.
[Em] I had had this idea [G] years ago for a song called A Hundred [D] Different Altars,
about a hundred [G] different people from a hundred [D] different altars, a [F#] hundred different [C] places,
places all [D] around the country, all around the world, [G] that they don't know each other.
They'll probably never know each other, [Em] and they're all going through different [D] problems.
They're all going through [C] different situations, but they're all going to [G] the same place for healing and relief and comfort.
Joel [D] and Brad really [G] took to [D] the idea and really,
[Em] really dug into it and [D] [G] explored the different issues and the [D] different people,
and even put names, [G] everyday names, that [Em] you'd hear every single day in your [G] life.
Sarah, Emma, [D] David, Peter, [G] names that you would hear in conversation every day.
[D] As many different issues as we could put into a three-and-a-half-minute [G] song.
In this song, you hear about addiction, you hear about a single [Em] mother, you hear about someone [D] who has been [C] unfaithful to their spouse,
you hear about all [G] sorts of different things.
[C] I think I always [G] tell people that you can either find yourself or [D] somebody that you really love in [G] this song.
[C] I love [G] that.
I love the message of hope [D] that God [Em] is big enough to [Dm] hear [G] all of these issues, all of [C] these problems, from all of these [D] people,
from all over the country [G] and the world, and He's big enough to take on all of those problems and bring peace and healing in every [D] situation.
I think [Em] that's a beautiful, beautiful message that we were [G] able to get out there.
Honestly, when [C] I went to this retreat, [D] I was not going to write anything for [G] us, [C] the Steeles, to do,
[G] because we were getting ready to pick songs for [D] a new album, and I thought we already had enough [Em] songs to pick from.
[Dm] But when [G] this song was written, I [C] just had a feeling, you know, this is a [D] special song, this is a special [G] message.
And [C] within three [G] days of the retreat, Wayne [D] Hahn, our producer, was sitting in our house [Em] listening to this song [G] on a demo,
and [C] it was a no-brainer [G] that we [D] were going to [Em] put it on [G] our new recording.
And, [D] you know, I think Joel said it was the quickest [Em] turnaround ever [Dm] from a retreat [G] to a [C] song getting placed [D] on somebody's album.
[G] It usually takes months [C] and years for a [G] song to end up to that point, but this song, it took [D] about three days.
It's just a [Em] special song, special message that [G] I hope [C] everybody is [G] just touched by,
[D] and I'm glad it's the first [G] single off of our album, A Hundred Different Altars.
At a hundred different altars, [D] one loving God of mercy meets them
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[C] A hundred [G] different people at [Am] a hundred _ [Em] different altars.
[G] I [C] attended a songwriters retreat [D]
in May of last year, 2022, _ _ [G] in Georgia.
_ The retreat [E] was put on by my friend Joel Lindsey, who [G] is [D] quite a renowned [G] songwriter himself.
What [D] they do at these retreats is they [G] _ draw names [Em] out of a bucket and they [G] put you into groups of three.
_ [D] So you don't know who you're going to be [G] writing with.
You don't get to pick.
[D] They draw [F#] names out of a bucket.
[D] _ _ On this particular day, they drew my [G] name with Joel Lindsey, who was putting the [Em] retreat on,
and a guy named Brad [D] Guldamon, whom I had [C] never written with before.
[G] They drew our names and they sent us into a room the next morning to write a song [D] together. _ _ _ _
_ [G] I've written with Joel [D] many times, and I'd never written with Brad before.
It's a different experience every time you go into [G] a room to write a song together.
We were just throwing around ideas [G] for _ songs.
[Em] I had had this idea [G] years ago for a song called A Hundred [D] Different Altars,
about a hundred [G] different people _ from a hundred [D] different altars, a [F#] hundred different [C] places,
places all [D] around the country, all around the world, [G] that they don't know each other.
They'll probably never know each other, [Em] and they're all going through different [D] problems.
They're all going through [C] different situations, but they're all going to [G] the same place for healing and relief and comfort.
_ Joel [D] and Brad _ really [G] took to [D] the idea and really, _
[Em] really dug into it and [D] _ [G] explored _ the different issues and the [D] different people,
and even put names, [G] everyday names, that [Em] you'd hear every single day in your [G] life.
Sarah, Emma, [D] David, Peter, [G] names that you would hear in conversation every day.
[D] _ As many different issues as we could put into a three-and-a-half-minute [G] song.
In this song, you hear about addiction, you hear about a single [Em] mother, you hear about someone [D] who has been [C] unfaithful to their spouse,
you hear about all [G] sorts of different things.
_ [C] I think I always [G] tell people that you can either find yourself or [D] somebody that you really love in [G] this song.
_ [C] I love [G] that.
I love the message of hope [D] _ that God [Em] is big enough to [Dm] hear [G] all of these issues, all of [C] these problems, from all of these [D] people,
from all over the country [G] and the world, and He's big enough to take on all of those problems and bring peace and healing in every [D] situation.
_ I think [Em] that's a beautiful, beautiful message that we were [G] able to get out there.
Honestly, when [C] I went to this retreat, [D] I was not going to write anything for [G] us, [C] the Steeles, to do,
[G] because we were getting ready to pick songs for [D] a new album, and I thought we already had enough [Em] songs to pick from.
[Dm] But when [G] this song was written, I [C] just had a feeling, you know, this is a [D] special song, this is a special [G] message.
And [C] within three [G] days of the retreat, Wayne [D] Hahn, our producer, was sitting in our house [Em] listening to this song [G] on a demo,
and [C] it was a no-brainer [G] that we [D] were going to _ [Em] put it on [G] our new recording.
And, [D] you know, I think Joel said it was the quickest [Em] turnaround ever [Dm] from a retreat [G] to a [C] song getting placed [D] on somebody's album.
[G] It usually takes months [C] and years for a [G] song to end up to that point, but this song, it took [D] about three days.
It's just a [Em] special song, special message that [G] I hope _ _ [C] everybody is [G] just touched by,
[D] and I'm glad it's the first [G] single off of our album, A Hundred Different Altars.
At a hundred different altars, _ [D] one loving God of mercy meets them
[G] I [C] attended a songwriters retreat [D]
in May of last year, 2022, _ _ [G] in Georgia.
_ The retreat [E] was put on by my friend Joel Lindsey, who [G] is [D] quite a renowned [G] songwriter himself.
What [D] they do at these retreats is they [G] _ draw names [Em] out of a bucket and they [G] put you into groups of three.
_ [D] So you don't know who you're going to be [G] writing with.
You don't get to pick.
[D] They draw [F#] names out of a bucket.
[D] _ _ On this particular day, they drew my [G] name with Joel Lindsey, who was putting the [Em] retreat on,
and a guy named Brad [D] Guldamon, whom I had [C] never written with before.
[G] They drew our names and they sent us into a room the next morning to write a song [D] together. _ _ _ _
_ [G] I've written with Joel [D] many times, and I'd never written with Brad before.
It's a different experience every time you go into [G] a room to write a song together.
We were just throwing around ideas [G] for _ songs.
[Em] I had had this idea [G] years ago for a song called A Hundred [D] Different Altars,
about a hundred [G] different people _ from a hundred [D] different altars, a [F#] hundred different [C] places,
places all [D] around the country, all around the world, [G] that they don't know each other.
They'll probably never know each other, [Em] and they're all going through different [D] problems.
They're all going through [C] different situations, but they're all going to [G] the same place for healing and relief and comfort.
_ Joel [D] and Brad _ really [G] took to [D] the idea and really, _
[Em] really dug into it and [D] _ [G] explored _ the different issues and the [D] different people,
and even put names, [G] everyday names, that [Em] you'd hear every single day in your [G] life.
Sarah, Emma, [D] David, Peter, [G] names that you would hear in conversation every day.
[D] _ As many different issues as we could put into a three-and-a-half-minute [G] song.
In this song, you hear about addiction, you hear about a single [Em] mother, you hear about someone [D] who has been [C] unfaithful to their spouse,
you hear about all [G] sorts of different things.
_ [C] I think I always [G] tell people that you can either find yourself or [D] somebody that you really love in [G] this song.
_ [C] I love [G] that.
I love the message of hope [D] _ that God [Em] is big enough to [Dm] hear [G] all of these issues, all of [C] these problems, from all of these [D] people,
from all over the country [G] and the world, and He's big enough to take on all of those problems and bring peace and healing in every [D] situation.
_ I think [Em] that's a beautiful, beautiful message that we were [G] able to get out there.
Honestly, when [C] I went to this retreat, [D] I was not going to write anything for [G] us, [C] the Steeles, to do,
[G] because we were getting ready to pick songs for [D] a new album, and I thought we already had enough [Em] songs to pick from.
[Dm] But when [G] this song was written, I [C] just had a feeling, you know, this is a [D] special song, this is a special [G] message.
And [C] within three [G] days of the retreat, Wayne [D] Hahn, our producer, was sitting in our house [Em] listening to this song [G] on a demo,
and [C] it was a no-brainer [G] that we [D] were going to _ [Em] put it on [G] our new recording.
And, [D] you know, I think Joel said it was the quickest [Em] turnaround ever [Dm] from a retreat [G] to a [C] song getting placed [D] on somebody's album.
[G] It usually takes months [C] and years for a [G] song to end up to that point, but this song, it took [D] about three days.
It's just a [Em] special song, special message that [G] I hope _ _ [C] everybody is [G] just touched by,
[D] and I'm glad it's the first [G] single off of our album, A Hundred Different Altars.
At a hundred different altars, _ [D] one loving God of mercy meets them