Revelation chords by Waylon Jennings

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Verse 1
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 (C major)  (B minor)  (A minor)  (C major) Somewhere  (D major) in Vietnam a  (B minor) 19-year-old
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soldier soldier walked  (D major) out of a  (C major) barroom
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And he said I must be see (G major) ing things that
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 (A minor) bourbon hit me like  (C major) a baseball  (D major) bat
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In Belfast Ireland a little lady  (B minor) dropped
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her shovel  (D major) in her garden  (C major) 
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She raced across the yard  (G major) and  (B minor) ask
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her neigh (A minor) bor Mrs Clancy  (C major) what  (D major) was that
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In Memphis Tennessee a teacher raised  (B minor) 
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the window closest  (D major) the  (C major) river
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And the children in her classroom  (B minor) swore
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 (A minor) they'd heard a choir singing down  (C major)  (D major) the street
In Washington DC a private sec
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 (B minor) retary's lips  (D major) began to quiver  (C major) 
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And the President just  (B minor) put aside his
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 (A minor) papers and rose quickly  (C major) to his  (D major) feet
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 (E major) I  lay in a cheap  (E flat major) motel  (C sharp minor) in    the arms
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of someone  (E major) else's  (D major) woman
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When a loud explosion  (A major) rocked the room  (B minor) 
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and turned the  (D major) morning into night  (E major) 
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I jumped out of bed and ran in (C sharp minor) to
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the street with hardly  (E major) any clothes  (D major) on  (A major)  (D major) 
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 (A major) As the sky  (D major) lit up my heart  (A major) stood still  (D major) and
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 (B minor) I could feel my  (A major) face was  (D major) turnin'  (E major) white
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 (A major) All at once the clouds rolled back and there
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stood Jesus Christ in all his glory  (E major) 
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And I realized the sad (E flat major) dest eyes I'd  (C sharp minor) ever
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seen were  (B major) lookin' straight at me  (F sharp major)  (B major) 
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I guess  (D major) I  was awakened by the  (B minor) penetrating
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sound (D major) s of my own scream (C major) in'
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And it didn't take me long  (G major) to stumble
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out  (A minor) of bed and fall  (C major) down on  (D major) my knees
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As tears rolled down my face I cried  (A major) dear  (B minor) God
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I'm thankful  (D major) I  was only dream (C major) in'
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And if I never go to hell  (G major) Lord it'll  (A minor) be
because you scared it out of me