Chords for David Phelps, Gaither Vocal Band - He's Alive [Live]

[Am] .
[A] .
The gates and doors were barred, [B] and all the [Am] windows fastened down.
I spent the night in sleeplessness, [D] and [Am] rose at every sound.
[Dm] I often hopeless sorrow, [G] often fear the [Am] day, which find the soldiers breaking through [G].
[Am] to.
drag us all away.
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Then just before the sunrise, I heard something at the wall.
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The gate began to rattle, and a voice began to call.
[Dm] I hurried to the window, and looked [Am] down into the street, expecting swords [G] and torches and.
the sound of [A] soldiers' feet.
[Am] .
But there was no one there but Mary, [G] so I went down [Am] to let her in.
And John stood there beside me, as she [G] told us [Am] where she'd been.
[Dm] She said, they've moved him in the night, and none of [Am] us knows where.
Oh, the stone's been rolled away, [G] and now his [Am] body isn't there.
[Bm] So we both ran to the garden, [A] then John ran on [Bm] ahead.
And we found the stone, an empty [A] tomb, just the way [Bm] that Mary said.
[Em] But the winding sheet they'd wrapped him in was [Bm] just an empty shell.
And how or where they'd taken [A] him was [Bm] more than I could tell.
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Oh, something strange had happened there, [A] just what I [Bm] did not know.
John believed a [A] miracle, but I [Bm] just turned to go.
[Em] Circumstance and speculation couldn't lift me [Bm] very high, because I'd seen them [A] crucify him.
[Bm] Then I saw him die.
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Back inside the house again, the guilt and anguish came.
Everything I'd promised him just added to my shame.
[Em] When at last it came to choices, I denied [Bm] him his name.
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So even if he was [D] alive, it [Bm] could never be the same.
[Cm] Then suddenly, the air was [Bb] filled with a strange and sweet [Bb] perfume,.
[C] light that came from [Bb] everywhere, drove shadows [Cm] from the room.
[Fm] Then Jesus stood before me [D] with his [Ab] [C] arms held open [Cm] wide, and I fell down on my knees.
[Bb] And I just [Cm] clung to him and cried.
[Bb] Oh, but then he [Cm] raised me to my feet.
And as I looked into his eyes, love was shining out from him like sunlight from the [Fm] skies.
Guilt and my confusion disappeared, his [Cm] sweet release.
Oh, and every fear I'd ever had [Bb] just melted [C] into peace.
Sweet!
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He's [Eb] alive, alive, alive, he's [Bb] alive, alive, alive, he's [F] alive, he's alive.
[C] He's alive, [Eb] he's alive, [Bb] he's alive, and I'm forgiven.
[F] Heaven's gates are open wide.
[C] He's alive, [Eb] he's alive, [Bb] he's alive, he's alive, and I'm forgiven.
[F] Heaven's gates are open wide.
[C] He's alive, [Eb] he's alive, he's alive, [Bb].
he's alive, he's alive, and I'm forgiven.
[F] Heaven's gates are open wide [C] He's alive.
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[Bb] [F] Heaven's gates are open wide.
Oh he's alive [C] He's alive .
[Eb] [Bb] .
[F] Heaven's gates are open wide [C] He's alive .
[Eb] [Bb] .
[F] Heaven's gates are open wide [C] He's alive .
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Can you believe that?.
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