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The Road The Rocks And The Weeds by John Mark McMillan
The Road The Rocks And The Weeds
Tuning:E A D G B E
Key:E
Capo:no capo
[Verse 1]
E
Come down from the stars, show your human scars
C#m/E E
Tell me what it's like to believe
A/E
Through my Christ haunted thoughts that the losses you bought
C#m B/D#
Are the nights that you peopled with your dreams
A/E
Well, I've got no answers for heartbreaks or cancers
C#m E B/D#
But a Savior who suffers them with me
C#m B A E
Singing goodbye, Olympus, the heart of my Maker
A/F# B E
Is spread out on the road, the rocks, and the weeds
[Verse 2]
E
Come down from your mountain, your high-rise apartment
C#m E
And tell me of the God you know who bleeds
F#m
And what to tell my daughter when she asks so many questions
C#m B
And I fail to fill her heaviness with peace
A
When I've got no answers for hurt knees or cancers
C#m E B/D#
But a Savior who suffers them with me
C#m B A E
Singing goodbye, Olympus, the heart of my Maker
A/F# B E
Is spread out on the road, the rocks, and the weeds
[Chorus]
F#m B
And Aphrodite would not weep, nor Zeus would suffer for the weak
E A
But have you come to stand inside my pain?
F#m B
And all the things I've begged you for, eternity and evermore
E B/D# C#m
Are hidden with me here beneath the rain
B
The rain
[Instrumental]
C#m B A E A B E B
C#m B A E A B E
[Verse 3]
E
So shall I plant sequoias and revel in the soil
Of a crop I know I'll never live to reap?
B C#m B A E
Then sow my body to my Maker, and my heart unto my savior
A B E
And spread me on the road, the rocks, and the weeds
A B
Spread me on the road
E
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version 2
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:9th fret
Watching JMM on FB and verifying with the album version,
he capos on the 9th fret. Personally, that’s too high a
pitch for me to sing at, I Prefer playing along capo on 3rd Fret.
-JMM thumb strums the chords, mainly focusing on the lower
strings except for the chords.
-Nice little touch with the chords is at the end of each
verse he does a walk-down from the G chord to Em on E string.
[Intro]
G
[Verse 1]
G
Come down from the stars, show your human scars
G [contd]
Tell me what it's like to believe
Am7 Em
Through my Christ haunted thoughts that the losses you bought
C G
Are the nights that you peopled with your dreams
C G
Well, I've got no answers for heartbreaks or cancers
Em G [E String walkdown]
But a Savior who suffers them with me
Em D C G
Singing goodbye, Olympus, the heart of my Maker
C D G
Is spread out on the road, the rocks, and the weeds
[Verse 2]
G
Come down from your mountain, your high-rise apartment
G [contd]
And tell me of the God you know who bleeds
Am7 Em
And what to tell my daughter when she asks so many questions
C G
And I fail to fill her heaviness with peace
C G
When I've got no answers for hurt knees or cancers
Em G [walkdown]
But a Savior who suffers them with me
Em D C G
Singing goodbye, Olympus, the heart of my Maker
C D G
Is spread out on the road, the rocks, and the weeds
[Chorus]
Am7 D
And Aphrodite would not weep, nor Zeus would suffer for the weak
G C
But have you come to stand inside my pain?
Am7 D
And all the things I've begged you for, eternity and evermore
G C
Are hidden with me here beneath the rain
D
The rain
[Verse 3]
G
So shall I plant sequoias and revel in the soil
C G
Of a crop I know I'll never live to reap?
Em D C G
Then sow my body to my Maker, and my heart unto my savior
C D G
And spread me on the road, the rocks, and the weeds
C D
Spread me on the road
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