Tonart: D major
Verse 1
Edim
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Gm
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You know I like the old songs
D
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I like them because
back in the country
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My grandfather was my pastor
and many days
Em
When they were get ting ready to have
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that old revival meeting
make his way up in the pulpit
Look out in that country church and he
Em
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did n't have a real strong voice
Gm
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But he was saying those old songs
They will be getting ready for the revival
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meeting
And it seemed like in my mind,
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I can hear him sometimes singing
Verse 2
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nearer,
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my God
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To Thee, oh near
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Thee) to Thee
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He will say nearer (oh near,
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G
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nearer ), my (my God)
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(To thee) to Thee, oh near,
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I will be nearer (oh near)
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Nearer (nearer)
Verse 3
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Listen
Verse 4
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Am
D
G
Sons, they have a feeling,
you see
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(Doo) there is a story
Bm
and every song that (doo)
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We sing sometimes when you listen at a song
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(doo)
Sons (doo- doo), sons they know,
Bm
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I'll have your burden when you stay
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Nearer (oh, nearer) nearer (to
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Thee) to Thee (to Thee)
Verse 5
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You see, in those days,
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my grandmother
Was the mother of the church,
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and I was the oldest grandchild
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Many days I would go by her home
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D
to talk to her, she taught me a lot
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And some days when I would
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get to that old wooden house
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Tears would be running down
those wrinkled cheeks
Bm
By me being the oldest boy, I always thought I
Verse 6
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could help
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I used to ask her saying, "Why,
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Am
why are you crying?"
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She would look at me and say, "Son,
You're too young
to understand my tears"
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She said, "But just keep on liv
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ing," and friends today
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I can understand her tears, I'm
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not ashamed to tell the world
Abdim
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Sometimes, I have to cry
Verse 7
A
And some days when I would
get to that old house
Bm
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She would be humming and
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she wouldn't come out and say the words
And I would say to her,
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Bm
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"Why are you moaning like this?"
Verse 8
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She would say, "Son, when I
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moan it confuses everybody
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It confuses the devil, he doesn't know
what I'm moaning about"
Abdim
Now, I may not be able to
moan like a lot of people
D
But I believe I can moan a little
bit like my grandmother
A
If she was still with us today,
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she would sound something like this
Verse 9
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In my mind, I can hear her sometimes
Working, washing and ironing
in that old wooden house
G
Seems like when she would moan, it
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would make the work easier
G
And in my mind, friends,
Abdim
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sometimes when I'm rid ing along in the bus
Or flying through the air
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Bm
I can hear her humming
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G
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Sometime like this, listen
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Hmm, hm-
Verse 10
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mm (doo)
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Hmm, hmm (doo)
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