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The Funeral easy guitar chords by 
The Staple Singers
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Verse 1
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Go ahead and advance on now.
We're now racing by prayers
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F
Eb
Ab
Db
C
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we trust you'll enjoy.
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I was walking in Savannah
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Ab
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past a church decayed and dimmed
Gb
F
When slowly through the window
came a plaintive funeral hymn,
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Ab
My sympathy awakened
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Db
an d a wonder quickly grew
Gb
Until I found myself seated
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Ab
in a little old church pew.
G
Out front a lonely couple
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Db
sat in sorrow nearly wild
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On the altar was a casket
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Db
and in the casket was a child
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G
I could picture him while living,
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curly hair, smiley lips.
F
I'd seen perhaps a thousand
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in my hurried southern trips.
Ab
G
Then rose a sad little country preacher
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from a wooden desk
Gb
F
In a manner sort of awkward
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and continent's coquettish.
Ab
G
And he said, now don't go weeping
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for this pretty bit of clay
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For the little boy who lived there
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has gone and run away
G
He was doing very fine
Db
and he appreciated your love
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But the Heavenly Father wanted him
in that big house up above
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The Lord didn't give you that baby
C
by a hundred thousand miles
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He just thought you needed
a little sunshine
and he lent it for a while
And he'd let you keep and love him
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C
until your hearts were big or grown
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And these silver tears
that you're shedding now
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are just interest on the loan
Just think, my poor dear mourners,
C
creeping long life's way
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What a blessed picnic
C
this here baby had today
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Your good fathers and good mothers
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cried the little fellow round
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In the angel's tender garden
F
C
of the big plantation garden
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And his eyes brightly shined
C
at the pretty things he viewed
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But a tear came and he whispered,
F
C
I want my mama and my daddy too
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But then the angel's
chief musician
C
taught that little boy a song
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That says if only they be faithful
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they'll soon be gone
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So my poor, dejected mourners,
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let your hearts with heaven rest
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And don't go criticizing the one
C
what knows the best
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He has given many comforts,
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he has the right to take away
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C
To the Lord be praise and glory
C
Now and forever
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Let us pray.
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