Poetry chords by Taylor Leonhardt

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

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

🎸 Verse 1:
       C majorC
Isn’t it so hard for most of us
  G#dim7G#dim7        A minorAm        FF
To find the kind of patience that will trust
         C majorC            G+G
The slow steady work of God beneath the surface
        FF    E MajorE  D MajorD C majorC C7C7
Every moment working for our good


🎸 Verse 2:
           C majorC
Cause under all the snow is something green
G#dim7G#dim7     A minorAm     FF
Hiding in the winter is a spring
        C majorC             G+G
I know it will take the barren field of heartbreak
           FF    E MajorE  D MajorD C majorC C7C7
A augmentedA little time for a new rain to fall

🎸 Chorus:
  FF
I will not hang my head
        C majorC
His banner is over me, He said
     G+G  G#dim7G#dim7            A minorAm  D MajorD
I am his poetry    and he won’t waste a word
      FF G+G
I’m gonna wait,
          C majorC
I’ll wait on the Lord

🎸 Verse 2:
         C majorC
Surely I’ve been wrong along the way
  G#dim7G#dim7     A minorAm      FF
But I will not be called by my mistakes
         C majorC
He calls me his friend
            G+G
When all I see is where I’ve been
          FF  E MajorE  D MajorD C majorC C7C7
I hear him tell me where I am going

🎸 Chorus:
  FF
I will not hang my head
        C majorC
His banner is over me, He said
     G+G  G#dim7G#dim7            A minorAm  D MajorD
I am his poetry    and he won’t waste a word
      FF G+G
I’m gonna wait,
          C majorC
I’ll wait on the Lord

🎸 Bridge:
 DmDm             A minorAm
There’s no wound that he cannot heal
       DmDm      A minorAm
There’s no child too far gone
FF          C majorC
I’m the clay on his spinning wheel
   G+G
And he knows what I’ll become

Instrumental 🎸 Verse:

🎸 Chorus:
 FF
I will not hang my head
   FF  E MajorE  D MajorD C majorC
His banner is over me, He said
      G+G G#dim7G#dim7           A minorAm
I am his poetry   and he won’t waste a word (wont' waste a word)
  FF
I will not hang my head
   FF  E MajorE  D MajorD C majorC
His banner is over me He said
      G+G G#dim7G#dim7           A minorAm D MajorD
I am his poetry   and he won’t waste a word
      FF G+G
I’m gonna wait,
      FF G+G
I’m gonna wait,
      FF G+G            C majorC
I’ll gonna wait... I'll wait on the Lord