Wake Nicodemus chords by
Burl Ives

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Key: G major•

Verse 1

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Nicodemus

Nicodemus the slave was of African birth

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And was bought for a bag full of gold

He was reckoned as part

of the salt of the earth

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And he died long ago, very old

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And his last sad request

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as they lay him to rest

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In the trunk of an old hollow tree

Wake me up was his charge

At the first break of day

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Wake me up for the great jubilee

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There's a great time coming

And it's not far off

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Been long, long, long on the way

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So go and tell Elijah to hurry up home

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And meet us by the gum tree

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down in the swamp

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For to wake Nicodemus today

Nicodemus was never

the sport of the lash

Though the bullets had

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oft crossed his path

There were none of his masters

so bold or so rash

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As to face such a man in his wrath.

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But his great heart with kindness

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was filled to the brim,

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He obeyed who was born to command,

And he longed for the mornin'

which then was so dim

Tis the mornin' which now

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is at hand

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There's a great time comin'

and it's not far off

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Been long, long, long on the way

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So go and tell Nigel to hurry up home

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And meet us by the gum tree,

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down in the swamp,

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For to wake Nicodemus today.

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