Mercy - What A Friend We Have In Jesus
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: F#Capotraste:
6th traste
[Intro]
C Am F
[Verse 1]
C F
What a friend we have in Jesus,
C G
All our sins and griefs to bear!
C F
What a privilege to carry
C G C
Everything to God in prayer
Dm C
Oh, what peace we often forfeit,
F C G
Oh, what needless pain we bear
C F
all because we do not carry
C G C
everything to God in prayer.
[Interlude]
C Am F
[Verse 1]
C G Gm A
I’m living proof
Dm C F G
Of what the mercy of God can do
C G
If you knew me then, you’d believe me now
Gm A
He turned my whole life upside down
Dm C F G
Took the old and He made it new
Am Dm C F G C
That's just what the mercy of God can do (Now I'm...)
[Chorus 1]
F C
Now I'm alive to tell the story
G Am
How I've over-come
F C
By His goodness and mer - cy
G
And the power of the blood
F
And I'm so glad that my freedom
G E Am
Wasn't based on what I've done
F C
But His goodness and mer - cy
G C G Gm A Dm C F G
And the power of the blood
[Verse 2]
C G Gm A
I thought I deserved
Dm C F G
To be six feet beneath the earth
C G
For all the things I've done and the things I've said
Gm A
The choices made that I regret
Dm C F G
Oh, I would still be lost
Dm C F G
Oh, but for the mercy of God
[Chorus 2]
F C
Now I'm alive to tell the story
G Am
How I've overcome
F C
By His goodness and mercy
G
And the power of the blood
F C
And I'm so glad that my freedom
G G#m Am
Wasn't based on what I've done
F C
But His goodness and mercy
G C
And the power of the blood
[Interlude]
C F
C F
[Bridge 1]
C
And was the Cross meant for me
F
That my Savior carried?
C
Oh, I've been made free
F
By the mercy of God
C
Was the grave meant for me
F
Where my sin lay buried?
F#m7 Esus4
Now I stand re-deemed
F C
By the mercy of God
[Bridge 2]
C
Was the Cross meant for me
F C
That my Savior carried?
Am G
Now I've been made free
F C
By the mercy of God
C
Was the grave meant for me
F C
Where my sin lay buried?
Am G
Now I stand re-deemed
F C
By the mercy of God
[Bridge 2]
C
Was the Cross meant for me
F C G
That my Savior car-ried?
Am G
Now I've been made free
F C
By the mercy of God
C
Was the grave meant for me
F C
Where my sin lay buried?
Am G
Now I stand re-deemed
F C
By the mercy of God
[Chorus]
F C
Now I'm a-live to tell the story
G Am
How I've over-come
F C
By His goodness and mercy
G
And the power of the blood
F C
And I'm so glad that my freedom
G E Am
Wasn't based on what I've done
F C
But His goodness and mercy
G Am
And the power of the blood
[Ending]
F C
It's His goodness and mer-cy
G Am
And the power of the blood
F C
It's His goodness and me-rcy
G C
And the power of the blood
How to play Mercy - What A Friend We Have In Jesus
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