Help Yourself chords by The Devil Makes Three

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice

Dm    A7    Dm     G5    A7

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Even the devil was an angel 'fore he tried to rush the throne
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Lord, they threw him in hell there all alone
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Now he builds a castle out of the sinner's bones
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You'd be angry too, if you could never go home

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Well now, I ain't no preacher no preacher man's son
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     I done some bad things but I like to have my fun
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A thousand ways to heaven, a thousand ways to hell
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Well I say,    the good lord helps those that help themselves

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So help yourselves now

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Old man Nicodemus could not hear his heart bleed
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     He saw that Jesus had some tricks up his sleeve
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He said "Oh man Jesus I can't do things your way
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But I see you work for somebody big, so I'm backin' your play."

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     Old man Nicodemus, his pockets they were deep
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And on the day that they decided to put Jesus to sleep
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Jesus could not care for money now or any such thing
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Old Nicodemus paid to have Jesus just buried like a king.

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Well now, I ain't no preacher no preacher man's son
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     I done some bad things but I like to have my fun
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A thousand ways to heaven, a thousand ways to hell
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Well I say,    the good lord helps those that help themselves

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So help yourselves now

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Our father art in heaven hallowed be thy name
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Told Noah build a boat, on the driest of days
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And everybody in the neighborhood thought old Noah was insane
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I guess when the waters receded now the truth was plain

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Well now, I ain't no preacher no preacher man's son
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     I done some bad things but I like to have my fun
    A7                         Dm
A thousand ways to heaven, a thousand ways to hell
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Well I say,    the good lord helps those that help themselves

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So help yourselves now

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Moses was a great man, parted the waters of the red sea
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Down the road to Egypt he made sure the slaves were free
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Well he could speak to god, so they say, yes indeed
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Well the noise of his voice woulda made our poor ears bleed

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Moses he had an army I tell ya all his own
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     They stood in circles outside his very home
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And when the Pharaohs got to killin' they left ol' Moses alone
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But the Romans drove those nails through Jesus' bones


          A7                       Dm
Well now, I ain't no preacher no preacher man's son
A7                                 Dm
     I done some bad things but I like to have my fun
    A7                         Dm
A thousand ways to heaven, a thousand ways to hell
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Well I say,    the good lord helps those that help themselves

             Dm          A7      Dm  A7  Dm
So help yourselves now


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