Standing On First Base chords by Tim Keller
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Verse 1
Last (C major) spring, up in Pecos, New Mexico,
(G major) the town nearest to where I live,
(C major) there was a baseball team was practicing for
the regional championships for the state,
when one of the storms comes (G major) in out of the Sangre
de Cristo mountains in the afternoons,
(C major) came over and there was (G major) lightning,
and lightning (C major) struck one of the ball players,
one of the high (G major) school boys,
struck him while he was standing
on first base.
(C major) I didn't think about writing
(G major) this next song
until about three or four weeks later,
I was standing under a cold shower
in the last (C major) day of the Kerrville Folk
(G major) Festival
and the idea of this song (F major) came to me
as (C major) ideas will (G major) come to you
in a cold shower. (C major) Um...
And (G major) in the meantime I had been down in Hou (C major) ston,
I'd toured around (G major) a little bit
during the festival
and I'd been down in (C major) Houston
watch (G major) ing a friend's TV (C major) set
(G major) during some (C major) of the (G major) instant replays
coming out of Tiananmen Square.
(C major) So this song ended up being about a young man
(G major) dying in Tiananmen Square
another young man dying (C major) in Pecos,
New (G major) Mexico.
It's a song about living,
(C major) (G major) a song called (C major) Standing
on First Base. (F major) (G major) (C major)
Lightning broke the three o 'clock bell,
(F major) the buses scurried home, (C major)
left Roy there on first base
like (F major) it was his own (G major)
the (C major) batter took a practice swing
the (F major) blackest cloud
his (C major) aim roy rose off of first base
flickered (F major) like a flame (G major)
the diamond (C major) turned as black as coal
The (F major) wind -up and the pitch (C major)
And just before the storm came (G major) down (C major)
Roy (F major) knew he wouldn't mis (G major) s
And (C major) there before the final crack
You (F major) should have seen his face (C major)
What (F major) finer time to be (C major) struck down
Than (G major) standing on first (C major) base
Take (F major) me when you take (G major) me,
take me right (C major) there in my tracks. (F major)
(C major) Take me from the (F major) middle of the (G major) race.
Take (F major) me when I won't (G major) be sitting still
(C major) or looking back (F major) .
What (C major) finer time to be (F major) struck down
than (G major) standing on first (C major) base
In our dark and finest hour,
beneath (F major) a burning glare (C major)
The tanks all marching on their
way in (F major) to Tiananmen Square (G major)
He (C major) stood alone in anger,
raised (F major) his fist and never shrank. (C major)
Batman may have stopped a war,
(F major) but he didn't stop that (G major) tank.
(C major) Oh, that death would strike me down
in (F major) the middle of my (C major) game.
Take me when I'm most alive,
turn (F major) me into flame. (G major)
Find (C major) me when I'm far from home,
(F major) give me its embrace. (C major)
What (F major) finer time to (C major) be struck down
than (G major) standing on first (C major) base.
Take (F major) me when you take (G major) me,
take me right (C major) there in my track (F major) s.
(C major) Take me from the (F major) middle of the (G major) race.
Take (F major) me when I (G major) won't be sitting still
(C major) or looking back (F major) .
What (C major) finer time to (F major) be struck down
than (G major) standing on first (C major) base. (F major) (G major) (C major)
Tears fall from the storming sky
for (F major) those it's left be (C major) hind.
They'll just have to wait their turn
and (F major) hope it's just as kind. (G major)
If (C major) you stand in one place,
you (F major) could die of thirst. (C major)
But when you run from home,
your (F major) eyes are fixed on (G major) thirst.
And (C major) those who won't run from a storm
may (F major) not have much (C major) sense.
But they're the ones who know
to reach bey (F major) ond the outfield (G major) fence.
An (C major) d there, before the final crack,
(F major) you should have seen his (C major) face.
(F major) What fighter, time to (C major) be struck down,
(G major)
but standing on first (C major) base.
Take (F major) me, when you take (G major) me,
take me right (C major) there in my tracks. (F major)
Take (C major) me from the (F major) middle of the (G major) race
Take (F major) me when I (G major) won't be sitting still
(C major) or looking back (F major)
What (C major) finer time to (F major) be struck down
than (G major) standing on (C major) first base
What finer time to (F major) be struck down
than (G major) standing on first (C major) base.
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Standing On First Base
Tim Keller
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