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

Verse:

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

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

   F                        G
My papa said son you better educate your mind

      C                 F
So he sent me away to a school for the blind

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

      Am                             F
But I never thanked the Lord for the trouble I had

Chorus:

C                               F
While they stayed on the gospel side

C                      F
I stayed on the gospel side

Instrumental:
Am  G    C  F  C  F

Verse:

C
Well the teachers there

 F                C          F
soaked the rope in water overnight

C
and I was bound to get a whoopin'

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if I did wrong, or if I did right

       F                      G
I was lost sometime and now I'm found

     C                     F
Amazing grace how sweet the sound

  F                             G
one night on the radio I heard the Golden Gate Quartet

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


Chorus:

C                      F
I stayed on the gospel side

C                      F
I stayed on the gospel side


Am         G              F
I seen the sinner and the sanctified

                    G      C
but I stayed on the gospel side

Bridge:
Am  Em  Am  Em  F ...


Verse:

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

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

F                 G
I'll finally see my father's face

C                       F
hold my mother close and feel her grace

Chorus:

C                      F
I stayed on the gospel side

C                      F
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:

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I seen the sinner and the sanctified ...
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