{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2396523,"song":"This Blessed Old Book","artist":"The Rochesters","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11494357-this-blessed-old-book-chords-by-the-rochesters/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2396523?type=chord","rating":5,"votes":12,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                           [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt's a well of pure water when I'm thirsty and dry,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBread when I'm hungry and worn;[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                   [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhen the battle is raging, it's my faithful sword,[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nA shelter from life's troubled storm.[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt's a light to my pathway and a lamp to my feet[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                    [ch]F[/ch]\r\nWhen the world gets so dark I can't see,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]F[/ch]\r\nAnd I've not made a change in one word that it says,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]C2[/ch]\r\nBut it sure made a change in me.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThis blessed old Book that I hold in my hand,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt's true from beginning to end,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt's a solid foundation where I firmly stand,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C2[/ch]\r\nSin kept me from it; now it keeps me from sin.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]       [ch]C[/ch]                          [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen I think what it cost just to hold in my hand,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIt reminds me that I owe a great debt[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]F[/ch]\r\nTo all of the martyrs who'd go to the stake[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd quote it with their dying breath.[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow its critics are many, and believers are few,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                               [ch]F[/ch]\r\nBut one thing I've found to be true:[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]F[/ch]\r\nIf you find when you read it that there's something wrong,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]C2[/ch]\r\nThen there's something wrong with you.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThis blessed old Book that I hold in my hand,[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt's true from beginning to end,[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIt's a solid foundation where I firmly stand,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]F[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C2[/ch]\r\nSin kept me from it; now it keeps me from sin.[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["C","G","F","A","C2"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}