Hicks's Farewell chords by Blue Highway

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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The
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time is swiftly rolling on
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Em 
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When I must fain and die,
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My body to  the dust return,
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And there for God's son lie.
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Let persecutions wager round,
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let Antichrist appear.
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Beneath the cold and silent ground
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Em 
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There's no  disturbance here
Through heat and cold
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I've told and spent
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And  wandered in  despair
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To call poor sinners to repent
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And   seek the Savior fair
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My little children near my heart,
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and nature seems to bind.
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It grieves me sorely to depart
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And   leave you here behind.
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My loving wife, my  bosom friend,
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The object of my love.
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My times been sweet,
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I've spent with thee,
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My sweet, my harmless dove.
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Though I  must now
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depart from thee,
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let this not grieve your heart,
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for you will surely
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Come to me,
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where we  shall never  part.