Gotta Tell Somebody chords by Don Francisco

Chords with lyrics

There is no verse/chorus splits to this song, it is a folk story and played the same through out.

Verse 1:

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She kept on getting weaker, As day dragged into day,
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The doctors gave no hope for her, She seemed to fade away,
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My hours were filled with constant dread. Time became a knife,
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But slowly and relentlessly, cut the chord of life
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There was a teacher in the region then, Some of us had heard,
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Thathe'd healed a paradict, By the power of just his word,
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So with hope again rekindled, I went at once to see,
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If I could find a man named Jesus, From a town in Galilee

Verse 2:
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I began to search the city, Soon I saw the crowd,
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They were pressing in to touch him, And they called his name out loud,
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But with the strength of desperation, I pushed them all aside,
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I threw myself before him, And from my knees I cried,
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Lord come and heal my daughter, Even now she's close to death,
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Her fever's uncontrollable, She fights for every breath,
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But God's given you the power Life is your's to give
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And if you'll just lay your hands on her I know that she'll live
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she'll live------------
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she'll li--------------ve

Verse 3:

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He just begun to go with me, When a face I saw with fear,
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Came towards me with the news I knew I didn't want to hear,
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And although I tried to steal myself, I trembled when he said,
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"Why bother the teacher anymore, your little girl is dead."

Verse 4:

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Then Jesus touched my shoulder, And he told me not to not to grieve,
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The trembling stopped when he looked at me, and said, "Only believe."
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Then he sent the crowds away Except his closest men,
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And they followed right behind us, As we started off again,
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But we were still a long ways down the road, When I heard the sounds and cries,
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of the mourners and musicians, As they strove to dramatize,
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My grief they had no business with Beneath their loud disguise
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And my wife just sat their silently And stared through empty eyes

Verse 5:

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Then Jesus asked the mourners, "Why is it that you weep?,
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She isn't dead as you suppose, The child is just asleep."
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It only took a moment, for their wails to turn to jeers!
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"Who does this man think he is Get him out of here!"
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"But with authority I've never heard, in the lips of any man,
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He spoke and every sound rolled out with the thunder of command,
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And in the sudden silence, They all hurried for the door
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Wondering what the reasons were they'd ever come there for

Verse 6:

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And then he called his 3 disciples, That were with him on the way,
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He led them and my wife and me, To where our daughter lay
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He took her by the hand, he told her, "Child arise."
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And the words were barely spoken, when she opened up her eyes,
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She rose and walked across the room and stood there at our sides
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My wife knelt down and held her close, And at last she really cried
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And then Jesus told us both to see our daughter have some food
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But as to how her life was saved Not to speak a word
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Not to speak a word
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But I gotta tell somebody
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I gotta tell somebody
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I gotta tell somebody What Jesus did for me