Jesus Was a Carpenter

Jesus Was a Carpenter easy guitar chords by Johnny Cash

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  • Verse 1
    Jesus 
    was 
    a carpenter 
    and He worked 

    with a saw 
    and a 
    hammer 

    And His 
    hands 
    could 
    join 
    a table 

    true 
    enough 
    to stand 
    forever 

    And 
    He might 
    have 
    spun 
    His 
    life 
    out 

    in the 
    coolness 
    of the morn
    ing 

    But 
    He 
    put aside 
    His 
    tools 
    and 
    He 

    walked 
    the burning 
    highways 

    And He 
    built 
    His 
    house 
    from 

    people just 
    like 
    these 

    Verse 2
    And 
    He 
    found 
    them 
    as 
    they 
    wandered 

    through 
    the 
    wild 
    Judean 
    mountains 

    And 
    He found 
    them 
    as 
    they 
    pulled 

    their 
    nets 
    upon 
    the 
    Sea 
    of 
    Ga
    lilee 

    An
    for 
    thousand 
    evenings 
    while 

    the 
    day 
    behind 
    Him 
    emptied 

    He 
    put 
    aside 
    His tools 
    and 

    stopped 
    to 
    touch 
    the 
    dying 

    And 
    He built 
    His 
    house 
    from 

    people 
    just 
    like 
    these 

    Verse 3

    It 
    was 
    on 
    a storming 
    Sunday 
    when 

    He 
    rode 
    to 
    old 
    Jer
    usalem 

    And 
    the palms 
    they 

    cast 
    before 
    Him 

    Were like 
    the crimes 
    they 
    laid 
    again
    st Him 

    It 
    was 
    on 
    a storming 
    Friday 
    when 
    He 

    climbed 
    the 
    streets 
    to Calvary 

    An
    where 
    He 
    died 
    today 
    why 
    they're 

    selling 
    beads 
    and 
    postcards 

    And they 
    tell 
    us 
    too 
    that 

    that 
    was 
    long 
    ago 

    Interlude 1

    Verse 4
    But 
    would 
    He 
    stand 
    today 
    upon 

    the sands 
    of 
    Cali
    fornia 

    And 
    walk 
    the sweating 
    blacktop of 
    New 

    York 
    and 
    Missis
    sippi? 

    Would 
    He 
    be 
    guest 
    on 
    Sunday, 

    vagrant 
    on 
    Monday? 

    With 
    the doors 
    locked 
    tight 

    against 
    His 
    kind 
    you 
    know 

    Verse 5
    Oh, 
    come 
    again 
    now 
    Jesus 
    be 

    carpenter 
    amon
    us 

    There 
    are 
    chapels 
    in our 
    discontent, 

    cathedrals 
    to 
    our 
    sorrows 

    And 
    we 
    dwell 
    in 
    golden 
    mansions 

    with 
    the 
    sand 
    for 
    our 
    found
    ations 

    And 
    the 
    ra
    ging 
    water's 
    rising 
    and 

    the 
    thunder's 
    all 
    around 
    us 

    Won't 
    You 
    come 
    and 
    build 

    house 
    on 
    rock 
    again 


    Verse 6
    Jesus 
    was 
    a carpenter 
    and 
    He 
    worked 

    with 
    a saw 
    and 
    hammer 

    And His 
    hand
    could 
    form 
    a table 
    true 
    enough 
    to stand 

    Outro 1
    forever 



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