Daniel & The Sacred Harp Lyrics

Daniel & The Sacred Harp

Chorus:
G		   d
Daniel, daniel and the sacred harp,
C		   g
Dancing through the clover.
C	    bm
Daniel, daniel would you mind,
D7	   g
If I look it over.

Verse:
G			  c			d7  g
I heard of this famous harp years ago back in my home town
C				 d	 em
But I sure never thought old daniel be the one to come and bring it around
G	    d	  c		   g
Tell me daniel how the harp came into your posession.
D 		 c		   g
Are you one of the chosen few who will march in the the procession? 
C	 em

And daniel said:
G 		  d		  g	    d
The sacred harp was handed down, from father unto son,
C	   bm 	   am 	 d7
And me not being related,	i could never be the one.
G		 d	  g		 d
So I saved up all my silver, and took it to a man,
C 	  bm		   am 	   g
Who said he could deliver the harp, straight into my hand.

Em		   a
Three years I waited patiently,
D			   c
’till he returned with the harp from the sea of galilee.
Em		   a
He said there is one more thing I must ask,
D		  c
But not of personal greed.
Bm			 am
But I wouldn’t listen I just grabbed the harp,
D7 	    g
And said take what you may need.

G			 c			 d	  g
Now daniel looked quite satisfied, and the harp it seemed to glow.
C		   d  em
But the price that daniel had really paid, he did not even know.
G		   d7
Back to his brother he took his troubled mind.
C		   g
And he said dear brother I’m in a bind.
D7
But the brother would not hear his tale,
C		    g
He said old daniel’s gonna land in jail.
G		   d
So to his father daniel did run,
G		   d
And he said oh father what have I done.
C		  bm			 am
His father said son you’ve given in, you know you won your harp,
G
But you lost in sin.

Em			  a
Then daniel took the harp and went high on the hill,
D				  c
And he blew across the meadow like a whippoorwhill.
Em			   a
He played out his heart just the time to pass,
D		    c		    g
But as he looked to the ground, he noticed no shadow did he cast.

Repeat chorus