Ten Thousand chords by John Mark McMillan

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: C

Verse 1:
C                            Fmaj7/C       C
Ten thousand glimmering like coals in our chest
Am            G/B          Fmaj7/C      Fmaj7sus2          Fmaj7/C
Ball bearings drawn to the magnetic     breath
   C                         Fmaj7/C        C
Of ten thousand weeping with wings on their tears
       Am           G/B        Fmaj7/C      Fmaj7sus2     Fmaj7/C
Amidst ten thousand voices for ten thousand years
        C                          Fmaj7/C       C
For ten thousand graves yawning, unlocked and unlatched
    Am           G/B              Fmaj7/C    Fmaj7sus2
Now ten thousand holes with rocks on their   backs
    C                           Fmaj7/C      C
Ten thousand tombs gaping wide  singing the praises of
  Am            G/B           Fmaj7/C      Fmaj7sus2      Fmaj7/C
Of ten thousand bodies     Un-laced and un-laid

Pre-Chorus:
       G                       Fmaj7/C    Fmaj7sus2
As the ten thousand highways unfold their doors
        G                        Fmaj7/C    Fmaj7sus2
For the ten thousand standing on Nineveh's  shores
          C                  G             C       Fmaj7/C  G        C
Where the blood of a husband silences wars for the girl who rises to meet him

Chorus:
               Fmaj7/C        Fmaj7sus2  Fmaj7/C                  C
And she sings, World
I've over       -    come   you
world,
     Csus   C         G              Gsus       G
I’ve over – come you, World
I’ve over    -  come
      Fmaj7/C        Fmaj7sus2       G      Gsus     G2
by my song
and the blood  of   a   Son

Verse 2:
    C                          Fmaj7/C       C
But ten thousand rivers run    red like  my  veins
          Am           G/B        Fmaj7/C    Fmaj7sus2          Fmaj7/C
Where the bones of men hum like a rattling   cage
    C                     Fmaj7/C           C
For sinew to cling to for wind   to   re-  main
   Am           G/B       Fmaj7/C      Fmaj7sus2     Fmaj7/C
In ten thousand lungs for ten thousand days
C                         Fmaj7/C      C
Breathing like a choir of holes in the ground
          Am           G/B                Fmaj7/C    Fmaj7sus2
Where the cynical have lain     Where the cynical go down
         C                       Fmaj7/C   C
Save the gravity of time    Lets go of her drowned
     Am           G/B          Fmaj7/C        Fmaj7sus2    Fmaj7/C
Like ten thousand sparrows un- locked and un- wound

Pre-Chorus:
       G                       Fmaj7/C    Fmaj7sus2
As the ten thousand highways unfold their doors
        G                        Fmaj7/C    Fmaj7sus2
For the ten thousand standing on Nineveh's  shores
          C                  G             C       Fmaj7/C  G        C
Where the blood of a husband silences wars for the girl who rises to meet him

Chorus:
               Fmaj7/C        Fmaj7sus2  Fmaj7/C                  C
And she sings, World
I've over       -    come   you
world,
     Csus   C         G              Gsus       G
I’ve over – come you, World
I’ve over    -  come
      Fmaj7/C        Fmaj7sus2       G      Gsus     G2
by my song
and the blood  of   a   Son