Kunci: F major
Verse 1
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G
I was walking in Savannah past
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a church, decayed and dim
Bm
D
When slowly through the window came a
A
plaintive funeral hymn
My sympathy awakened and a wonder
quickly grew
D
'Til I found myself environed
in a little colored pew
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Out front a colored
Verse 2
couple sat
in sorrow nearly wild
D
On the altar was a casket and
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in the casket was a child
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I could picture him while living,
D
curly hair protruding lips
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I'd seen perhaps a thousand in my hurried
southern trips
Verse 3
Then rose a sad,
D
old colored preacher from his little wooden desk
With a manner sort of awkward
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and countenance grotesque
The simplicity and shrewdness
Gm
D
in his Ethiopian face
G
A
Showed the wisdom and the ignorance of a crushed,
undying race
D
Verse 4
And he said, "Now don't be weepin'
for this pretty bit of clay
Gm
For the little boy who lived there has
G
done gone and run away
D
He was doing very finely and he
A
'ppreciates your love
Em
D
But his sho nough father wanted him in the
big house up above
Verse 5
D
The Lord didn't give you that baby, by no hundred thousand
miles
G
He just think you need some sunshine
and he lent it for a while
D
And he let you keep and love him 'til
your hearts were bigger grown
A
And these silver tears you're shedding
now, are just interest on the loan
Bm
D
Just think my poor dear mourners creeping long on sorrow?s
Verse 6
way
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Gm
What a blessed picnic this
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here baby got today
D
Your good fathers and good
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mothers crowd the little fella round
In the angels 'tender garden of
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the big plantation ground
G
And his eyes they brightly
Verse 7
sparkle
at the pretty things he view
D
But a tear came and he whispered,
"I want my parents too"
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Then the angel's chief musicians
teach that little boy a song
D
Says if only they be faithful, they'll
soon be comin' 'long
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D
And so my poor dear mourners,
Verse 8
let your hearts with Jesus rest
And don't go to criticizn' the
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one what knows the best
D
He has give us many comforts He's
got the right to take away
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To the Lord be praised in glory,
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D
now and ever, let us pray
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D
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