Here Was A Man chords by 
Johnny Bond 
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Key: B major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Here was a man,
a man who was born in an obscure village,
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the child of a simple peasant woman.
He grew up in another obscure village.
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Until he was thirty years of age,
he worked as a carpenter,
and for three years he was
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traveling preacher.
He never wrote a book.
He never held political office.
He never owned a home.
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He never had a family.
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He never went to college.
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He never set foot inside of a big city.
He never traveled more than 200 miles
from the place of his birth,
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and where he did go, he usually walked.
He never did one of the things
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that one usually associates with greatness,
he had no credentials but himself.
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He had nothing to do with this world
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except through the supreme power
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of its divine man hood.
While still a young man,
the tide of popular opinion
turned against him.
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Most of his friends ran away.
One of them denied him.
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One of them even betrayed him
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and turned him over to his enemies.
He went through the mockery of a trial
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and was nailed to a wooden cross
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between two thieves.
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And while he was dying,
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his executioners gambled for
the only piece of property
that he had in this world,
and that was his robe.
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When he was dead,
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he was taken down from the cross
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and laid in a borrowed grave
provided by friends.
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The 19 wide centur ies
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have since come an d gone,
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and today he is the centerpiece
of the human race,
the leader in the column of human progress.
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I think that I am well within the mark
when I say that all the armies
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that ever marched,
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and all the navies that
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ever sailed the seven seas,
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all the legislative bodies that ever sat,
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and all the kings that ever reigned,
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all put together,
have not affected the life of man on this earth
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so powerfully as that one solitary life.
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Here was a man. Thank
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsB E F#
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E
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Capo: 4
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