Artist: Johnny Cash Song: Softly and Tenderly Album: My Mother’s Hymn Book Year: 2003 Original key: C --- Verse 1: C C F C Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling Am D G G Calling for you and for me C C F C See, on the portals, He's waiting and watching Am F C G C C Watching for you and for me
Chorus: G G C G C Come home, come ho--me D D7 G G7 Ye who are weary, come ho--me C C F C Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling Am F C G C C C C Calling, oh sinner, come home Verse 2: C C F C Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading Am D G G Pleading for you and for me C C F C Why should we linger and heed not his mercies Am F C G C C Mercies for you and for me Chorus: G G C G C Come home, come ho--me D D7 G G7 Ye who are weary, come ho--me C C F C Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling Am F C G C C C C Calling, oh sinner, come home Verse 3: C C F C O for the wonderful love He has promised Am D G G Promised for you and for me C C F C Though we have sinned, He has mercy and pardon Am F C G C C Pardon for you and for me Chorus: G G C G C Come home, come ho--me D D7 G G7 Ye who are weary, come ho--me C C F C Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling Am F C G C C
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