Gather The Hands chords by Rudd Xavier

Chords with lyrics

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

Key: BB

Difficulty: Intermediate

Gather the Hands - Xavier Rudd


{Intro}

BB D#mD#m F#F# C#C# x2


Verse:

BB            D#mD#m
She was delivered by the grace of his hands
F#F#          C#C#
Kindness, relentless, wired to be shared
BB             D#mD#m
People stood awkwardly and gazed across the room
F#F#                 C#C#
She walked with such elegance in the places that she knew

{Verse]

BB             D#mD#m
Flawlessness, contagious, compassionate, engagement
    F#F#            C#C#
In these hands I belong, in these hands you belong
BB             D#mD#m
Foolish, segregation, scars deep beneath the skin
    F#F#               C#C#
Of the black man and the white man and everyone in between


BB D#mD#m F#F# C#C# x2


{Verse]

    BB               D#mD#m
Forever sacred was the feminine, right down to the final hour
     F#F#             C#C#
When every baby to be taken was to be poisoned to be soured
   BB                  D#mD#m
Bodies turning in their graves and spirits waiting to go home
   F#F#                  C#C#
Disconnected from their holy place when the museum stole their bones

{Verse]

  BB               D#mD#m
Cry freedom, still bleeding, still waiting for a reason
      F#F#                 C#C#
Throw these arms around the world, Throw these arms around the world
      BB         D#mD#m
Through the eye of a needle we tried to move the stone
  F#F#             C#C#
So heavy from its history, of shame and blood and bone


BB D#mD#m F#F# C#C#


Chorus:

      F#F#
Gather the hands to move the stone
      C#C#
Gather the hands to move the stone
    BB
Sing it up to the heavens
    D#mD#m       C#C#
Let it rain down on us all

(x6)


Outro:

      BB         D#mD#m
Through the eye of a needle we tried to move the stone
  F#F#             C#C#
So heavy from its history, of shame and blood and bone