Band - Daniel & The Sacred Harp lyrics

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Chorus:

G d

Danieldaniel and the sacred harp

C g

Dancing through the clover.

C bm

Danieldaniel 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 downfrom father unto son

C bm am d7

And me not being relatedi could never be the one.

G d g d

So I saved up all my silverand took it to a man

C bm am g

Who said he could deliver the harpstraight 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 satisfiedand the harp it seemed to glow.

C d em

But the price that daniel had really paidhe 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 inyou 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 groundhe noticed no shadow did he cast.

Repeat chorus