Simple Living chords by Keith & Kristyn Getty

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: D

✝ Verse 1:
   D                     Em  D/F# G
A rich young man came to ask of   Christ:
                        A    D
'Good teacher, will You tell me,
                    Em D/F# G
What must I do for eternal  life?
                       A    D
I've kept Your laws completely.'
      G       D/F#       Em7    A
'Sell all you have, give to the poor,
     G        D/F#     Em7      A       Bm/A   A7
Then heaven's treasure shall be yours.'
    D                      Em  D/F# G
How hard for those who are rich on earth
                      A  D
To gain the wealth of heaven.

Em  D/F#  G    A  D

✝ Verse 2:
    D                Em   D/F#  G
Now Jesus sat by the offering  gate
                        A D
As people brought their money:
                            Em D/F# G
The rich they filled the collection plate;
                 A  D
The widow gave a penny.
     G        D/F#  Em7     A
'Now she's outgiven all the rest -
    G        D/F#     Em7    A        Bm/A  A7
Her gift was all that she possessed.'
     D                Em   D/F# G
Not what you give but what you keep
                    A   D
Is what the King is counting.

✝ Instrumental:
D       G         A      D
D       G         A      Bm
Bm      Em        F#m    Bm
Bm      C         G      D    C  D

✝ Verse 3:
  D                Em   D/F# G
O teach me Lord to walk this road,
                   A  D
The road of simple living;
                   Em  D/F# G
To be content with what I   own
                A D
And generous in giving.
    G      D/F#     Em7
And when I cling to what I have
       G        D/F#    Em7     A     Bm/A   A7
Please wrest it quickly from my grasp;
    D                   Em    D/F# G
I'd rather lose all the things of earth
                      A  D
To gain the things of heaven.