Nearer My God To Thee chords by Songs Of Praise

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
C majorC      FF       C majorC     G+G
Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
C majorC       FF      C majorC  G+G   C majorC
E’en though it be a cross, that raiseth me.
C majorC       FF        C majorC     G+G
Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to thee,
C majorC      FF
Nearer, my God, to thee,
C majorC  G+G   C majorC
Nearer to thee!

Verse 2:
C majorC        FF     C majorC      G+G
Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,
C majorC      FF    C majorC G+G   C majorC
Darkness be over me, my rest a stone,
C majorC     FF       C majorC     G+G
Yet in my dreams I’d be, nearer, my God, to thee,
C majorC      FF
Nearer, my God, to thee,
C majorC  G+G    C majorC
Nearer to thee!

Verse 3:
C majorC       FF      C majorC     G+G
There let the way appear, steps unto heav’n;
C majorC       FF     C majorC  G+G   C majorC
All that thou sendest me, in mercy giv’n;
C majorC      FF     C majorC     G+G
Angels to beckon me, nearer, my God, to thee,
C majorC      FF
Nearer, my God, to thee,
C majorC  G+G   C majorC
Nearer to thee!

Verse 4:
C majorC       FF        C majorC        G+G
Then with my waking thoughts, bright with thy praise,
C majorC     FF       C majorC G+G    C majorC
Out of my stony griefs, Bethel I’ll raise;
C majorC     FF      C majorC     G+G
So by my woes to be, nearer, my God, to thee,
C majorC      FF
Nearer, my God, to thee,
C majorC  G+G   C majorC
Nearer to thee!

Verse 5:
C majorC      FF      C majorC      G+G
Or if, on joyful wing, cleaving the sky,
C majorC        FF      C majorC  G+G  C majorC
Sun, moon, and stars forgot, upward I fly,
C majorC       FF       C majorC     G+G
Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to thee,
C majorC      FF
Nearer, my God to thee,
C majorC  G+G   C majorC
Nearer to thee!

Verse 6:
C majorC      FF       C majorC      G+G
There in my Father’s home, safe and at rest,
C majorC      C majorC       C majorC  G+G   C majorC
There in my Savior’s love, perfectly blest;
C majorC     FF      C majorC     G+G
Age after age to be, nearer, my God, to Thee.
C majorC      FF
Nearer, my God, to thee,
C majorC  G+G  A minorAm
Nearer to thee!
C majorC      FF
Nearer, my God, to thee,
C majorC  G+G   C majorC
Nearer to thee!

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