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Jesus Was a Carpenter easy guitar chords by
Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash

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Verse 1
G

Jesus was a carpenter and He worked
C
D

with a saw and a hammer
G

And His hands could join a table
C
D

true enough to stand forever
G
C

And He might have spun His life out
G
D

in the coolness of the morning
G
C

But He put aside His tools and He
G
C

walked the burning highways
G

And He built His house from
Am
D

people just like these
Verse 2
Bb
G

And He found them as they wandered
C
D

through the wild Judean mountains
Bb
Gm
G

And He found them as they pulled
C
D

their nets upon the Sea of Galilee
G
C

And for a thousand evenings while
G
D

the day behind Him emptied
G
C

He put aside His tools and
G
C

stopped to touch the dying
G
Am

And He built His house from
D

people just like these
Verse 3
D

G

It was on a storming Sunday when
C
D

He rode to old Jerusalem
G
Gm
G

And the palms they
Gm
G

cast before Him
C
D

Were like the crimes they laid against Him
G
C

It was on a storming Friday when He
G
C

climbed the streets to Calvary
G
C

And where He died today why they're
G
C

selling beads and postcards
G

And they tell us too that
A
D

that was long ago
Interlude 1
A

Verse 4
A

But would He stand today upon
D
A
E

the sands of California
A

And walk the sweating blacktop of New
D
E
A
D
A
E

York and Mississippi?
A
D

Would He be a guest on Sunday,
A
D

a vagrant on a Monday?
A

With the doors locked tight
B
E

against His kind you know
Verse 5
E
G

Oh, come again now Jesus be
C
D

a carpenter among us
Bb
G

There are chapels in our discontent,
C
D

cathedrals to our sorrows
G
C

And we dwell in golden mansions
G
D

with the sand for our foundations
G
C

And the raging water's rising and
G
C

the thunder's all around us
G

Won't You come and build
Am

a house on rock again
D

Verse 6
G
C

Jesus was a carpenter and He worked
D

with a saw and a hammer
Gm
G
C

And His hands could form a table true enough to stand
Outro 1

forever
D
G
C
G
D
G
C
G
C
G

D
G
C
D

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    2

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