{"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":2553531,"song":"The Devil And The Cross","artist":"Halfway to Hazard","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11514162-the-devil-and-the-cross-chords-by-halfway-to-hazard/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2553531?type=chord","rating":0.11987,"votes":0,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]G[/ch] [ch]D[/ch] [ch]Em[/ch] [ch]C[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI remember Daddy held the Bible like a gun[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBack when I was a Pentecostal Gospel preacher’s son[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd I still can see the fire and brimstone in his eyes[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen he preached to people in a tent[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nRepent before you die[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nMe I’d sneak out back with some saintly southern girl[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd there I’d teach her the ways of this world[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWell, I guess I was a way too wild to be the child of a preacher man[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWith one foot on solid rock and one on the sinking sand[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nJust like the Prodigal son I guess I got way too lost[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLiving somewhere in between the devil and the cross[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nI was Daddy’s worst nightmare by the time I turned eighteen[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBaptized in a whiskey river on the streets of New Orleans[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                                        [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWell, the demons, drugs, and rock n’ roll they seemed to cloud my mind[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd women were a weakness for weeks at a time[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI learned the hard way what you reap is what you sow[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                             [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSo, in silent desperation, one night I headed home[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYeah, I guess I was a way too wild to be the child of a preacher man[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWith one foot on solid rock and one on the sinking sand[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nJust like the Prodigal son I guess I got way too lost[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLiving somewhere in between the devil and the cross[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Bridge]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nDaddy did more than talk the talk[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHe walked the walk in life[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHe loved me and forgave me when I came home that night[/tab]\r\n[tab]               [ch]C[/ch]                         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHe said, “Son, don’t ever be ashamed for God forgives the lost.[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                                 [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWe all live somewhere in between the devil and the cross.”[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nLord, I guess I was a way too wild to be the child of a preacher man[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWith one foot on solid rock and one on the sinking sand[/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]G[/ch]                         [ch]D[/ch]\r\nJust like the Prodigal son I guess I got way too lost[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nLiving somewhere in between the devil and the cross[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI got way too lost[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nG D Em C\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Bridge]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["G","D","Em","C"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}