Poetry chords by Taylor Leonhardt

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Verse 1:
              C
Isn’t it so hard for most of us
    G#dim7               Am                F
To find the kind of patience that will trust
                 C                        G
The slow steady work of God beneath the surface
               F       E   D  C  C7
Every moment working for our good



🎸 Verse 2:
                      C
Cause under all the snow is something green
G#dim7          Am         F
Hiding in the winter is a spring
                C                         G
I know it will take the barren field of heartbreak
                     F       E   D  C C7
A little time for a new rain to fall

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

🎸 Verse 2:
                  C
Surely I’ve been wrong along the way
    G#dim7          Am           F
But I will not be called by my mistakes
                  C
He calls me his friend
                        G
When all I see is where I’ve been
                    F   E   D  C C7
I hear him tell me where I am going

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

🎸 Bridge:
 Dm                         Am
There’s no wound that he cannot heal
             Dm            Am
There’s no child too far gone
F                    C
I’m the clay on his spinning wheel
     G
And he knows what I’ll become

Instrumental 🎸 Verse:

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