Difference between revisions of "House of Amazing Grace"

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There is a house in New Orleans
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They call the Rising Sun
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And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
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And God I know I'm one

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My mother was a tailor
    Am       C        E
She sewed my new blue jeans
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My father was a gamblin' man
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Down in New Orleans

Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk

*** musical bridge ***

Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun

Well, I got one foot on the platform
The other foot on the train
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain

Well, there is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one 

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   Amazing grace how sweet the sound
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   that saved a wretch like me
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   I once was lost, but now am found,
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   was blind but now I see ... Hallelu-ia ...

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   Hallelu-ia, Hallelu
C              F
   Hallelu-ia, Hallelu-ia
C              F
   Hallelu-ia, Hallelu,
C              F             C
   Hallelu-ia, Hallelu, Hallelu-ia

'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
and grace my fears relieved 
how precious did that grace appear
the hour I first believed
   
Through many dangers toils and snares
I have already come
'Twas grace that brought me safe thus far,
and grace shall bring me home

When we've been there ten thousand years
bright shining as the sun
We've no less days to sing God's praise
than when we'd first begun