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Jesus Was A Carpenter by Johnny Cash
Jesus Was A Carpenter
Capo:no capo
[Verse]
D D7 G A7
Jesus was a carpenter and he worked with a saw and a hammer
D D7 G A7
And his hands could form a table true enough to stand forever
D G D A7
And he might have spun his life out in the coolness of the mornings
D G D G
But he put aside his tools and he walked the burning highways
D A7
To build a house from folks like you and me
[Verse]
D D7 G A7
And he found them as they wandered through the wild Judean mountains
D D7 G A7
And he found them as they pulled their nets upon the Sea of Galilee
D G D A7
And for a thousand evenings while the day behind him emptied
D G D G
He walked among the poor and he stopped to touch the dying
D A7
And he built his house from people just like these
[Verse]
D D7 G A7
It was on a shining Sunday when he rode to old Jerusalem
D D7 G A7
And the palms they cast before him were the crimes they laid against him
D G D A7
It was on a stormin’ Friday when he climbed the streets of Calvary
D G D G
And where he died today why they're sellin' beads and postcards
D A7
And they tell us too that that was long ago
[Verse]
D D7 G A7
But would he stand today upon the sands of California
D D7 G A7
Or walk the sweating blacktop in New York and Mississippi
D G D A7
Where the mighty churches rise above the screaming cities
D G D G
Would he be a guest on Sunday a vagrant on a Monday
D A7
With the doors locked tight against his kind you know
[Verse]
D D7 G A7
Come again now Jesus be a carpenter among us
D D7 G A7
There are chapels in our discontent cathedrals in our sorrows
D G D A7
And we dwell in golden mansions with the sand for our foundations
D G D G
And the raging water's rising and the thunder's all around us
D A7
Won't you come and build a house on rock again
[Verse]
D D7 G A7
Jesus was a carpenter and he worked with a saw and a hammer
D D7 G A7
And his hands could form a table true enough to stand forever
D G D A7
And he might have spun his life out in the coolness of the mornings
D G D G
But he put aside his tools and he walked the burning highways
D A7
To build a house from folks like you and me
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