Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard
Difficulty: Novice
Deliver Us from The Prince of Egypt
By: Stephen Schwartz
E minorEm B/E
With the sting of the whip on my shoulder
B7/E E minorEm E/G#
With the salt of my sweat on my brow
A minorAm D MajorD
Elohim, God on high
B minorBm C/EC/E
Can you hear your people cry:
FF
Help us now
E7sus E MajorE
This dark hour...
[Chorus]
A minorAm E/G# A minorAm
Deliver us
Hear our call
DmDm FF G+G
Deliver us
Lord of all
E7E7 A minorAm D MajorD E MajorE
Remember us, here in this burning sand
A minorAm E/G# A minorAm
Deliver us
BB E minorEm D/G A augmentedA
There's a land you promised us
A minorAm Am/B BB E5E5 E minorEm
Deliver us to the promised land...
B/E
Yal-di ha-tov veh ha-rach
(My good and tender son)
E minorEm E/G#
Al ti-ra veh al tif-chad
(Don't be frightened and don't be scared)
A minorAm D MajorD B minorBm
My son, I have nothing I can give
C/EC/E FF
But this chance that you may live
E7sus
I pray we'll meet again
E7E7 A minorAm E/G# A minorAm
If He will Deliver us
[of Chorus]
A minorAm E/G# A minorAm
Deliver us
Hear our prayer
DmDm FF G+G
Deliver us
From despair
E7E7 A minorAm
These years of slavery grow
D MajorD E MajorE
too cruel to stand
A minorAm E/G# A minorAm
Deliver us
BB E minorEm D/G A augmentedA
There's a land you promised us
A minorAm
Deliver us
Am/B BB C#m7b5C#m7b5
Out of bondage and
A minorAm Am/B BB C majorC {Dm7b5 C}
Deliver us to the promised land...
C majorC Dm7b5/C
Hush now, my baby
C majorC Dm7b5/C
Be still, love, don't cry
C majorC Dm7b5/C C majorC
Sleep as you're rocked by the stream
AbAb Eb MajorEb BbM7Bbm7 C majorC
Sleep and remember my last lullaby
Ab/G G/F C majorC {Dm7b5/C C}
So I'll be with you when you dream
D MajorD Em7b5/D
River, o river
D MajorD Em7b5/D
Flow gently for me
D MajorD Em7b5/D D MajorD
Such precious cargo you bear
Bb majorBb FF
Do you know somewhere
Cm7Cm7 D MajorD
he can live free?
Bb/Ab A/GA/G D MajorD {Em7b5/D D} (Lots of Stuff)
River, deliver him there...
C majorC Dm7b5/C
Brother, you're safe now
C majorC Dm7b5/C
And safe may you stay
C majorC Dm7b5/C C majorC
For I have a prayer just for you:
AbAb Eb MajorEb
Grow, baby brother
BbM7Bbm7 C majorC
Come back someday
Ab/Gb G/F A minorAm (interlude is chorus chords)
Come and deliver us, too...
A minorAm E MajorE A minorAm
Deliver us
BB E minorEm D/G A augmentedA
Send a shepherd to shepherd us
A minorAm Am/B BB C/Bb
And deliver us to the promised land
Am7Am7 Am/B BB E MajorE {F#m7b5/E E}
Deliver us to the promised land
E MajorE
Deliver us!