Chords for Wintley Phipps on NegroSpirituals with Amazing Grace

_ _ _ _ This has been an awesome night, hasn't it, everyone?
How _ many of you like Negro spirituals? _
_ _ _ _ _ An old black lady down south showed me something about the Negro spirituals,
and I want to share _ _ _ it with you.
I sensed by accident that some of us have on purpose, you know what I mean?
You didn't hear what I said.
I heard an old black lady say,
Son, if the mountain was smooth, you couldn't climb it. _ _ _ _ _
But did you know, she said to me,
Did you know all, just about all Negro spirituals are written on the black notes of the piano?
_ This is absolutely true.
You can go home tonight and play almost any Negro spiritual,
just play the black notes on the piano.
You look skeptical.
Now, you can't see it out there, but I want you to watch. _
[F#] There are five black notes on the piano.
[G#] _ [A#] _ _ [D#]
[A] And those same five black notes just [B] keep recurring.
_ _ And you can go home tonight and play almost any Negro spiritual,
just play the black notes.
Watch.
_ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ [G#m] _ [F#] _ You know that?
Every time I feel the spirit, just black notes.
[Bm] _
_ [F#] _ Watch this. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _ [A#m] _
[N] That's because the slaves didn't come to America with Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti, Do.
That's somebody else's scale, okay?
_ _ All they had in their musical scale were those five black notes.
Because we know it in music as the pentatonic scale.
And they built the power and pathos of the Negro spiritual on five notes.
_ When you study music, you also come across what are known as white spirituals.
Did you know that?
And they are white composers who worked with those, that scale.
In early America, they used to call that the slave scale.
I'm going to play for you what some musicologists think is the most famous white spiritual built on the slave scale,
or just the black [C#] notes.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[G#m] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [D#] Anybody [C#] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ [A#] _ _ [C#m] _ _ [C#] _ _
_ [A#m] _ [C#] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ [C#] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ [A#] tonight [N] know who wrote that song?
I heard it, a man by the name of John Newton.
But do you know what John Newton did before he became a Christian?
He was the captain of a slave ship.
_ And many believe heard this melody that sounds very much like a West African sorrow chant.
And wrote the words, amazing grace, and set his words to a slave melody.
_ _ _ I looked up that song. _
I _ believe God wanted that song written just the way it was written.
Just so that we would be reminded that as Christians, whether black or white, free or bond,
in his eyes, we're all connected.
We are connected.
We are connected by God's amazing grace.
We are _ _ _ _ connected by God's amazing grace. _ _
_ I _ _ looked up that song in the Library of Congress.
I went to the Library of Congress, I looked up that song.
And wherever you see it authentically printed, you know what it says?
_ Words, John Newton.
Melody, _ unknown. _
I tell the Lord when I get to heaven, I want to meet Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.
But boy, I want to meet that slave called unknown. _ _ _ _ _ _
And [B] I recorded that song the way I hear it when I sing it.
I still hear the sounds of the slave ships in the water.
I want to sing it for you the way [E] John Newton probably first heard it.
Belly of the ship.
Listen. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Mmm.
[E] _ Mmm. _ _ _
Mmm.
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[B] Mmm.
[A] Mmm.
_ Mmm. _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[A] Sing, great, _ _ [E] how sweet the _ sound.
_ _ _ I [F#] say, _ I _ [B] _ _
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ was [G#m] lost.
_ _ [A] But now _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
I _ _ _ [A] see.
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_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
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Ten _ [F#] thousand [C#] _ _ years.
[F#] _ Bright [A#m] _ _ [F#] shining [A#m] _
[F#] as _ [A#m] the [C#] _ sun.
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [A]
We've no _ _ _ _ _ escape.
_ To sing _ God's praise.
When _ _ _ _ [D] we _ first [E] _
[D] began.
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