Simple Living chords by Keith & Kristyn Getty

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: D MajorD

✝ Verse 1:
  D MajorD           E minorEm D/F#D/F# G+G
A augmentedA rich young man came to ask of  Christ:
            A augmentedA  D MajorD
'Good teacher, will You tell me,
          E minorEm D/F#D/F# G+G
What must I do for eternal life?
            A augmentedA  D MajorD
I've kept Your laws completely.'
   G+G    D/F#D/F#    E minor 7Em7  A augmentedA
'Sell all you have, give to the poor,
   G+G    D/F#D/F#   E minor 7Em7   A augmentedA    Bm/ABm/A  A7A7
Then heaven's treasure shall be yours.'
  D MajorD           E minorEm D/F#D/F# G+G
How hard for those who are rich on earth
           A augmentedA D MajorD
To gain the wealth of heaven.

E minorEm D/F#D/F# G+G  A augmentedA D MajorD

✝ Verse 2:
  D MajorD        E minorEm  D/F#D/F# G+G
Now Jesus sat by the offering gate
            A augmentedA D MajorD
As people brought their money:
              E minorEm D/F#D/F# G+G
The rich they filled the collection plate;
         A augmentedA D MajorD
The widow gave a penny.
   G+G    D/F#D/F# E minor 7Em7   A augmentedA
'Now she's outgiven all the rest -
  G+G    D/F#D/F#   E minor 7Em7  A augmentedA    Bm/ABm/A A7A7
Her gift was all that she possessed.'
   D MajorD        E minorEm  D/F#D/F# G+G
Not what you give but what you keep
          A augmentedA  D MajorD
Is what the King is counting.

✝ Instrumental:
D MajorD    G+G     A augmentedA   D MajorD
D    G+G     A augmentedA   B minorBm
Bm   E minorEm    F# minorF#m  B minorBm
Bm   C majorC     G+G   D MajorD  C majorC D MajorD

✝ Verse 3:
 D MajorD        E minorEm  D/F#D/F# G+G
O teach me Lord to walk this road,
          A augmentedA D MajorD
The road of simple living;
          E minorEm D/F#D/F# G+G
To be content with what I  own
        A augmentedA D MajorD
And generous in giving.
  G+G   D/F#D/F#   E minor 7Em7
And when I cling to what I have
    G+G    D/F#D/F#  E minor 7Em7   A augmentedA   Bm/ABm/A  A7A7
Please wrest it quickly from my grasp;
  D MajorD          E minorEm  D/F#D/F# G+G
I'd rather lose all the things of earth
           A augmentedA D MajorD
To gain the things of heaven.