This is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard and twenty years later I still
up listening to it. As you know, the original version features piano and twelve string
but what I'm giving you here is just the basic chord progression to the song for those
you who are like me and are more comfortable just playing the simple stuff. And I've
this at shows without complaints so it is correct. Just simple.
D G
Well I see him on the TV preaching 'bout the promised land
D G
He tells me to believe in Jesus steals the money from my hand
D G D G
Some say he was a good man lord I think he sinned
D G
Twenty two years of mental tears cries a suicidal Vietnam vet
D G
Who fought a losing war on a foriegn shore to find his country didn't want him back
D G
Their bullets took his best friend in Saigon our lawyers took his wife and kids no regrets
D G
In a time I don't remember in a war he can't forget
D G D
He cried "Forgive me for what I've done there cause I never meant the
G
things I did
(no chord) D
And give me something to believe in
G
If there's a lord above
D
Give me something to believe in
G
Oh lord arise
D G
My best friend died a lonley man in some Palm Springs motel room
D G
I got the call last Christmas Eve and they told me the news
D G
I tried all night not to break down and cry as the tears rolled down my face
D G
I felt so cold and empty like a lost soul out of place
D G D G
And mirror mirror on the wall see my smile it fades again
(no chord) D
And give me something to believe in
G
If there's a lord above
D
Give me something to believe in
G
Oh lord arise
D G D
G
Sometimes I wish to God I didn't know now things I didn't know then
(this is where the solo break is. I dont' know the solo...sorry)
D G
I drive by the homeless sleeping on the cold dark street like bodies in an open grave
D G
Underneath the broken old neon sign that used to read "Jesus Saves"
D G
A mile away live the rich folks and I see how they livin' it up
D D
While the poor they eatin' from hand to mouth the rich drinkin' from a golden cup
D G D G
And it just makes me wonder why so many lose and so few win
(no chord) D
And give me something to believe in
G
If there's a lord above
D
Give me something to believe in
G
Oh lord arise
D G D
G
Sometimes I wish to God I didn't know now things I didn't know then
And give me something to believe in
