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Oh Say What Is Truth by Songs Of Praise

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Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:
   G                            C       G
Oh say, what is truth? ’Tis the fairest gem
         C                       D
That the riches of worlds can produce,
    G                      C             G
And priceless the value of truth will be when
          C                   D
The proud monarch’s costliest diadem
   G           D         G
Is counted but dross and refuse.


Verse 2:
     G                            C         G
Yes, say, what is truth? ’Tis the brightest prize
         C                     D
To which mortals or Gods can aspire.
   G                             C          G
Go search in the depths where it glittering lies,
    C                       D
Or ascend in pursuit to the loftiest skies:
        G           D         G
’Tis an aim for the noblest desire.

Verse 3:
    G                         C        G
The sceptre may fall from the despot’s grasp
          C                         D
When with winds of stern justice he copes.
        G                      C           G
But the pillar of truth will endure to the last,
        C                       D
And its firm-rooted bulwarks outstand the rude blast
        G            D             G
And the wreck of the fell tyrant’s hopes.


Verse 4:
     G                            C            G
Then say, what is truth? ’Tis the last and the first,
        C                       D
For the limits of time it steps o’er.
        G                      C                 G
Tho the heavens depart and the earth’s fountains burst,
           C                      D
Truth, the sum of existence, will weather the worst,
 G         D            G
Eternal, unchanged, evermore.