Key: Eb major
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70 years
Verse 1
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ago my father's mother's father
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Nicholson
He and my great -grandmother
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had four lovely daughters
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Arkansas and
Oklahoma
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Building arbors made of pine
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And the people of the town
would come at sundown
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Some to scoff,
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some to see what they would find
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The family sang and prayed into the night
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And they rode in a covered wagon
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As they walked in holiness
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I may live to preach the power
and forgiveness of the
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Seventy years ago
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70 years ago there
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wasn't much in preaching
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But it never slowed them down
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that he was reaching
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Arkansas and
Oklahoma
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With a burning in their soul
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And it drove them to their
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For the sake of a wealth they
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could not hold
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And they rode in a covered wagon
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As they walked in holiness
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When they lived and preached the
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Lord
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70 years ago
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Living in the blessing
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Some never knew my name
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And when I am very old
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I hope there still will be a
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Seven years ago
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And they rode in a covered wagon
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As they walked in holiness
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And they lived and preached the
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Lord
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Seven years ago
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Seventy years ago
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Seventy years ago my father's mother's father
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You
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsEb Ab Bbsus4 Bb Fm
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