Steal Away chords by Conway Twitty

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Steal Away
Steal away
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Steal away
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Steal away, steal away hope,
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I ain't got long,
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I was walking in Savannah,
past a church decayed and dimmed,
when there slowly through the wonder,
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came a plaintive funeral hymn.
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An d a sympathy awakened,
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and a wonder quickly grew,
till I found myself environed
in a little negra pew.
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Out at front, a young couple sat in sorrow,
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nearly wild.
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On the altar was a coffin.
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in the coffin was a child.
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Rose a  sad old negro preacher
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at a little wooden desk
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with a manner grandly awkward
and a countenance grotesque,
and he said, Now,
don't you be a -weepin'
for this pretty bit of clay
For the little boy who lived there
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Why, done upped and run away
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But he's doin' very finely
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An d he appreciates your love
But he sure enough father want him
In that large house up above
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Now, he didn't give you that baby,
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no, not by a hundred thousand miles
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He just thought you need some sunshine
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And he lent him to you for a while
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And he let you love and keep it
Till your hearts were bigger grown
And these silver tears that you shed,
why, they just interest on their own.
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So my poor dejected mourners,
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let your hearts with Jesus rest.
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And don't go criticizing
the one that knows the best.
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He gives us many comforts,
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and He has the right to
take away.
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To the Lord be praise and glory,
now and ever, let us pray.
My Lord calls me,
he calls me by the thunder,
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the trumpet sounds within my soul.
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I ain't got long to stay here.