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Daniel And The Sacred Harp Lyrics

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