Stay On The Gospel Side chords by The Blind Boys Of Alabama

Chords with lyrics

Verse:

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A augmentedA long time ago they put me on a train to Selma, Alabama

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And I rode that train all the way to Tala... Taladega

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My papa said son you better educate your mind

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So he sent me away to a school for the blind

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I guess there were good times and I know there were bad

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But I never thanked the Lord for the trouble I had

Chorus:

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While they stayed on the gospel side

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I stayed on the gospel side

Instrumental:
A minorAm G+G  C majorC FF C majorC FF

Verse:

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Well the teachers there

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soaked the rope in water overnight

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and I was bound to get a whoopin'

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if I did wrong, or if I did right

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I was lost sometime and now I'm found

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Amazing grace how sweet the sound

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one night on the radio I heard the Golden Gate Quartet

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I started singin' for the Lord and I ain't stopped singin' yet

Chorus:

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I stayed on the gospel side

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I stayed on the gospel side


A minorAm     G+G       FF
I seen the sinner and the sanctified

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but I stayed on the gospel side

Bridge:
A minorAm E minorEm A minorAm E minorEm FF ...


Verse:

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When my work is done and I'm finally goin' home to see my maker

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Nothin' scarin' me in this world no more, not the devil or the undertaker

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I'll finally see my father's face

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hold my mother close and feel her grace

Chorus:

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I stayed on the gospel side

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I stayed on the gospel side


(And I just stayed on the gospel side
I stayed on the gospel side
I seen the sinner and the sanctified
though I stayed on the gospel side
I stayed on the gospel side
I stayed on the gospel side)

Outro:

FF          C majorC
I seen the sinner and the sanctified ...
FF G+G C majorC