Tribute To Dr. Martin Luther King chords by
Rev. Claude Jeter

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Key: Ab major

Verse 1
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C C 
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When
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Moses had finished
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the leadership
from Egypt to the banks of Jordan,
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God called him on the mountaintop
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and showed him the promised land.
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G G 
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Moses died, the people mourned.
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The mourning ended,
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but the memories lived on
in their hearts.
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To every citizen of the United States,
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and to every nation of the world,
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regardless of race, creed, or color,
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we've had a great loss,
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the loss of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Yes, we've had a loss,
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but heaven has gained.
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For Dr. King was truly an instrument
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of God's peace in a confused world.
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Em Em 
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For where there was hatred,
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he sowed love.
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Where there was injury, pardon.
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Where there was doubt, faith.
Where there was despair, hope.
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Where there was darkness, light.
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Em Em 
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And where there was sadness, joy.
Dr. King lived, and died for
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what he believed.
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And as he said, and I quote,
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if any man doesn't have
something
that he loved well enough to die for,
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then he is not fit to live.
So let us strive to bring into reality
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the things he saw
from the mountaintop
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looking through the telescope of time
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and now a divine master
grant
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that we may not so much seek to
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be consoled as to console
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to be understood as to understand
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to be loved as to love
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for it is in giving that we receive
and it is in pardoning that we are
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pardoned
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and it is in dying that we are born
to eternal life.
Sleep on, Dr. King,
for your work is finished here,
but one day when gables sound the
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trumpet
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and the dead in Christ shall rise,
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we'll all blend our voices together
and sing the beautiful song
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we have overcome.
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And as we yet live and struggle
through an unfriendly word
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this shall be our testimony
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if I can have somebody as
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I travel this way
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Then my living shall not
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be in vain.

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