{"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":2188059,"song":"Jesus Was A Carpenter","artist":"Johnny Cash","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/2188059-jesus-was-a-carpenter-chords-by-johnny-cash/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2188059?type=chord","rating":4.73645,"votes":8,"content":"[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]           [ch]D7[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nJesus was a carpenter and he worked with a saw and a hammer[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]D7[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nAnd his hands could form a table true enough to stand forever[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nAnd he might have spun his life out in the coolness of the mornings[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut he put aside his tools and he walked the burning highways[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                                    [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nTo build a house from folks like you and me[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]D7[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nAnd he found them as they wandered through the wild Judean mountains[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]D7[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nAnd he found them as they pulled their nets upon the Sea of Galilee[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nAnd for a thousand evenings while the day behind him emptied[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHe walked among the poor and he stopped to touch the dying[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                                      [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nAnd he built his house from people just like these[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]D7[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nIt was on a shining Sunday when he rode to old Jerusalem[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]D7[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nAnd the palms they cast before him were the crimes they laid against him[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]                      [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nIt was on a stormin’ Friday when he climbed the streets of Calvary[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd where he died today why they're sellin' beads and postcards[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                                   [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nAnd they tell us too that that was long ago[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]D7[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nBut would he stand today upon the sands of California[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]D[/ch]                   [ch]D7[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nOr walk the sweating blacktop in New York and Mississippi[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nWhere the mighty churches rise above the screaming cities[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWould he be a guest on Sunday a vagrant on a Monday[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]D[/ch]                                       [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nWith the doors locked tight against his kind you know[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]          [ch]D7[/ch]          [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nCome again now Jesus be a carpenter among us[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]D7[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nThere are chapels in our discontent cathedrals in our sorrows[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nAnd we dwell in golden mansions with the sand for our foundations[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the raging water's rising and the thunder's all around us[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]D[/ch]                               [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nWon't you come and build a house on rock again[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]           [ch]D7[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                        [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nJesus was a carpenter and he worked with a saw and a hammer[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]D7[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nAnd his hands could form a table true enough to stand forever[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nAnd he might have spun his life out in the coolness of the mornings[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]D[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut he put aside his tools and he walked the burning highways[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]D[/ch]                                    [ch]A7[/ch]\r\nTo build a house from folks like you and me[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]","chords":["D","D7","G","A7"],"chord_diagrams":{"A7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,0,2,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,0,2,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"D7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,1,3],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,1,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}