Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
♫ Intro:
AbAb
Thus saith the Lord, thus saith the Lord
AbAb
Thus saith the Lord, thus saith the Lord
AbAb
Thus saith the Lord, thus saith the Lord
AbAb
Since you refuse to free my people (Thus saith the Lord, thus saith the Lord) All through the land of Egypt
♫ Verse:
AbAb DbDb
I send a pestilence and plague Into your house, into your bed
AbmAbm DbDb
Into your streams, into your streets Into your drink, into your bread
AbmAbm DbDb
Upon your cattle, on your sheep Upon your oxen in your field
AbmAbm Eb MajorEb AbmAbm
Into your dreams, into your sleep, Until you break, until you yield
♫ Chorus:
G# minorG#m E MajorE C# minorC#m D#mD#m
I send the swarm, I send the horde
E MajorE C# minorC#m
Thus saith the Lord
♫ Verse:
F minorFm AbAb DbDb AbAb
Once I called you brother, once I thought the chance to make you laugh was all I ever wanted
AbAb
I send the thunder from the sky, I send the fire raining down
F minorFm AbAb DbDb
And even now I wish that God had chose another serving as your foe on his behalf
AbAb
Is the last thing that I wanted
DbDb
(I send a hail of burning ice on every field, on every town)
AbmAbm Eb MajorEb BbmBbm F minorFm Eb MajorEb
This was my home all this pain and devastation how it tortures me inside
F minorFm DbDb AbAb
All the innocent who suffer from your stubbornness and pride
AbAb
I send the locusts on a wind such as the world has never seen
AbmAbm
On every leaf, on every stalk until there's nothing left of green
♫ Chorus:
G# minorG#m E MajorE C# minorC#m D#mD#m
I send my scourge, I send my sword
E MajorE C# minorC#m
Thus saith the Lord
♫ Verse:
F minorFm DbDb DbmDbm AbmAbm
You who I called brother, why must you call down another blow?
G# minorG#m E MajorE C# minorC#m D#mD#m
I send my scourge, I send my sword
G#G#
Let my people go
E MajorE D#mD#m G# minorG#m C# minorC#m E MajorE G# minorG#m G#G#
Thus saith the Lord, thus saith the Lord
A#A# D#D# A#A#
You who I called brother, how could you have come to hate me so? Is this what you wanted?
G# minorG#m E MajorE C# minorC#m D#mD#m
I send the swarm, I send the horde
G# minorG#m E MajorE G# minorG#m
Then let my heart be hardened and never mind how high the cost may grow
E MajorE C# minorC#m D#mD#m F#F# E MajorE
This will still be so, I will never let your people go
C# minorC#m
Thus saith the Lord (Thus saith the Lord)
G# minorG#m D#mD#m F#F# A#mA#m G#G#
I will not let your (my) people go