Thank You God chords by Tim Minchin

Chords with lyrics

"Thank You God" by Tim Minchin

Tuning: Standard

Odd chords (in order of appearance):

Cadd4: x-3-3-0-1-0
Bb: x-1-3-3-3-1
C7: x-3-2-3-1-0
Fdim7: 1-x-0-1-0-1
Cdim7: x-0-1-2-1-2
Ab: 4-6-6-5-4-4

FF          C majorC
I have an apology to make,
              DmDm
I'm afraid I've made a big mistake,
              Cadd4 C majorC
I turned my face away from You, Lord.
FF              C majorC
I was too blind to see the light,
              DmDm
I was too weak to feel your might,
                   Cadd4 C majorC
I closed my eyes, I couldn't see the truth, Lord.

E MajorE                 A minorAm
But then like Saul on the Damascus road,
E MajorE                A minorAm
You sent a messenger to me, and so,
    FF
I have had the truth revealed to me,
      E minorEm
Please forgive me all those things I said,
   FF
I'll no longer betray you, Lord,
    G+G
I will pray to you instead.

Bb majorBb     FF     C majorC
And I will say thank you, thank you, thank you God.
Bb majorBb     FF     C majorC
Thank you, thank you, thank you God.

C majorC                    G+G
Thank you God, for fixing the cataracts of Sam's mum.

I had no idea but it's suddenly so clear,
   C majorC              C7C7
Now I feel such a cynic how could I have been so dumb?
FF
Thank you for displaying how praying works,
   C majorC
A augmentedA particular prayer in a particular church,
D MajorD                         G+G
Thank you Sam, for the chance to acknowledge this omnipotent ophthalmologist.

C majorC                    G+G
Thank you God, for fixing the cataracts of Sam's mum.

I didn't realise that it was so simple,
      C majorC               C7C7
But you've shown a great example of just how it can be done,
  FF
You only need to pray in a particular spot,
     C majorC
To a particular version of a particular god,
      D MajorD
And if you pull that off without a hitch,
    G+G
He will fix one eye of one middle-class white bitch.

A minorAm         Fdim7Fdim7
I know in the past my outlook has been limited,
 A minorAm               Fdim7Fdim7
I couldn't see examples of where life had been divinitive,
  FF            C majorC
But I can admit it when the evidence is clear,
  D MajorD           G+G
As clear as Sam's mum's new cornea.

That's extremely clear!
Extremely clear!

C majorC                    G+G
Thank you God, for fixing the cataracts of Sam's mum.

I have to admit that in the past I have been skeptical,
  C majorC               C7C7
But Sam described this miracle and I am overcome.
  FF
How fitting that the sighting of a sight-based intervention,
    C majorC
Should open my eyes to this exciting new dimension.
     D MajorD
It's like someone put an eye chart on the wall in front of me,
    G+G
And the top five letters say I-C-G-O-D.

C majorC                          G+G
Thank you Sam, for showing how my point of view has been so flawed.

I assumed there was no God at all but now I see that's cynical,
   C majorC                  C7C7
It's simply that His interests aren't particularly broad.
   FF
He's largely undiverted by the starving masses,
    C majorC
Or the inequality between the various classes.
  D MajorD
He gives out strictly limited passes,
  G+G
Redeemable for surgery or two-for-one glasses.

A minorAm           Fdim7Fdim7
I feel so shocking for historically mocking.
     A minorAm            Fdim7Fdim7
No, your interests are clearly confined to the ocular.
 FF               C majorC
I bet given the chance you'd eschew the divine,
  D MajorD                G+G
And start a little business selling contacts online.

C majorC                   G+G
Fuck me Sam, what are the odds that of history's endless parade of gods,
                                  C majorC
   C7C7
That the god that you just happen to be taught to believe in is the actual one and he
digs on healing,
  FF                      C majorC
But not the AIDS-ridden African nations, or the victims of the plague, or the
flood-addled Asians,
  D MajorD                      G+G
But healthy, privately-insured Australians, with common and curable corneal degeneration?

A minorAm            Fdim7Fdim7
This story of Sam's has but a single explanation:
 A minorAm            Fdim7Fdim7
A augmentedA surgical god who digs on magic operations.
   A minorAm            Fdim7Fdim7
No it couldn't be mistaken attribution of causation,
A minorAm           Fdim7Fdim7
Born of a coincidental temporal correlation,
 A minorAm           Fdim7Fdim7
Exacerbated by a general lack of education,
A minorAm             Fdim7Fdim7
Vis-a-vis physics in Sam's parish congregation.
    FF                C majorC
And it couldn't be that all these pious people are liars.
  FF             C majorC
It couldn't be an artifact of confirmation bias.
 FF
A augmentedA product of group-think,
 Cdim7Cdim7
A augmentedA mass delusion,
  G+G              Fdim7Fdim7
An Emperor's-New-Clothes-style fear of exclusion.
    A minorAm           Fdim7Fdim7
No it's more likely to be an all-powerful magician,
     A minorAm          Fdim7Fdim7
Than the misdiagnosis of the initial condition,
  A minorAm            Fdim7Fdim7
Or one of many cases of spontaneous remission,
   A minorAm              Fdim7Fdim7
Or a record-keeping glitch by the local physician.

FF          C majorC
No, the only explanation for Sam's mum seeing:
   FF            C majorC
They prayed to an all-knowing super-being.
    FF             Cdim7Cdim7
To the omnipresent master of the universe,
    G+G            Fdim7Fdim7
And he liked the sound of their muttered verse.
     A minorAm            G+G
So for a bit of a change from his usual stunt,
      FF        E minorEm
Of being a sexist, racist, murderous cunt,
  FF              E minorEm
He popped down to Dandenong and just like that,
FF         Cdim7Cdim7
Used his powers to heal the cataracts,
G+G    AbAb
Of Sam's mum.
  A augmentedA
Of Sam's mum.

-KEY CHANGE-

D MajorD                    A augmentedA
Thank you God, for fixing the cataracts of Sam's mum.

I didn't realise that it was such a simple thing.
 D MajorD
I feel such a ding-a-ling, what an ignorant scum.
G+G
Now I understand how prayer can work,
   D MajorD
A augmentedA particular prayer in a particular church,
     G+G
In a particular style, with the particular stuff,
      D MajorD
And for particular problems that aren't particularly tough,
      G+G
And for particular people, preferably white,
      D MajorD
And for particular senses, preferably sight,
   G+G
A augmentedA particular prayer in a particular spot,
    Fdim7Fdim7
To a particular version of a particular god.
      A augmentedA
And if you get that right, he just might,
G+G
Take a break from giving babies malaria,
  D MajorD
And pop down to your local area,
  E MajorE         A augmentedA    D MajorD
To fix the cataracts of your mum.
      A augmentedA  D MajorD
Hallelujah!