Jesus Was a Carpenter chords by Johnny Cash
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Verse 1
(G major) Jesus was a carpenter and He worked
(C major) with a saw (D major) and a hammer
And His (G major) hands could join a table
true enough (C major) to stand (D major) forever
And (G major) He might have spun His (C major) life out
in the (G major) coolness of the morn (D major) ing
But He (G major) put aside His (C major) tools and He
walked (G major) the burning (C major) highways
And He (G major) built His house from
(A minor) people just like (D major) these
Verse 2
And He (B flat major) found (G major) them as they wandered
through the (C major) wild Judean (D major) mountains
And (B flat major) He found them (G minor) as (G major) they pulled
their nets (C major) upon the Sea of Galilee (D major)
An (G major) d for a thousand evenings (C major) while
(G major) the day behind Him (D major) emptied
He (G major) put (C major) aside His tools and
stopped (G major) to touch the (C major) dying
And He built (G major) His house from (A minor)
people just like (D major) these
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Verse 3
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It was (G major) on a storming Sunday when
He (C major) rode to old Jer (D major) usalem
And the palms (G major) (G minor) (G major) they
cast (G minor) before (G major) Him
Were like the crimes (C major) they laid again (D major) st Him
It was (G major) on a storming Friday (C major) when He
climbed (G major) the streets to Calvary (C major)
An (G major) d where He died today (C major) why they're
(G major) selling beads and postcards (C major)
And they (G major) tell us too that
(A major) that was long (D major) ago
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Verse 4
But would (A major) He stand today upon
the sands (D major) of Cali (A major) fornia (E major)
And (A major) walk the sweating blacktop of New
(D major) York and Missis (E major) sippi? (A major) (D major) (A major) (E major)
Would He (A major) be a guest on Sunday, (D major)
a (A major) vagrant on a Monday? (D major)
(A major) With the doors locked tight
against (B major) His kind (E major) you know
Verse 5
Oh, (E major) (G major) come again now Jesus be
a (C major) carpenter amon (D major) g us
(B flat major) There are chapels (G major) in our discontent,
cathedrals (C major) to our sorrows (D major)
And we dwell (G major) in golden (C major) mansions
with the (G major) sand for our found (D major) ations
And the raging (G major) water's rising (C major) and
the (G major) thunder's all around (C major) us
Won't You (G major) come and build
a (A minor) house on rock again
(D major)
Verse 6
(G major) Jesus was a carpenter and He (C major) worked
with a saw and a (D major) hammer
And His hand (G minor) s could form a table true (G major) enough (C major) to stand
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Jesus Was a Carpenter
Johnny Cash
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