I Will Be With You Always chords by Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Verse 1:
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Once I was as ugly as a harpy-bitten tree
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And every voice within me spoke: "You will never be free."
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Once I was as ugly as a harpy-bitten tree
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But today I am as perfect as a single blade of grass
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Because I am free

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In the night I was beset by demons
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I know all their names but cannot speak them
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Their grinning teeth split the darkness and I said:
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"I know your name, take your teeth out of me
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Return my body to me, release me, release me,
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Release me, release me, release me."

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My tears soaked my bed, the blood of many wounds soaked my bed
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The sweat of many fears soaked my bed
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And I begged - "Release me, release me, release me."


Verse 2:
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And sinner friend, I heard that voice sweet as a bright bell
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It spoke to me and said, sweet as a bright bell:
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"I will always be with you, I will be with you always."
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And I spat "Who are you? Some demon? Do I know your name "
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And the voice replied "I am the one heralded by seven trumpets
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Have you not heard? I claim no thing and no thing can claim me
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But I am yours and you are mine
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For this hour, you are free."

            Abm  D#  Abm   D#  F#  C#  Abm  D#
And I said "Demon, release me."
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"I cannot release you for you are already free
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I made you as perfect as a single blade of grass
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Have you not seen "
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And the voice spoke, sweet as a bright bell,
Abm     D#     Abm     D#     F#      C#       Abm    D#
"I will always be with you, I will be with you always."


Verse 3:
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And so I sit at the table of God
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And my garment is woven from the stars
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And the leaves that fan from the trees that unfurl into heaven
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In my hair are lilies and at my throat are pearls
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And when I walk the streets of gold with naked feet
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All this was promised and came to be

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And so, sinner friend, lay your burdens down
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The night is not yours alone to carry
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Take my hand, for in the dark I see you
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And will speak unto you what was spoke unto me:
Abm     D#     Abm     D#     F#      C#       Abm    D#
"I will always be with you, I will be with you always
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I will always be with you, I will be with you always."