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#Subject: c/church_of_rhythm/strayed.crd
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#Strayed
#Written by Church of Rhythm (from Not Perfect)
#Transcribed by Mark Guinn (guinnm@pride.nwsc.k12.ar.us)
#6-20-97
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#Chords:
# E 022100 or 079900 or x799xx
# B x2440x or 76980x or 769xxx
# C#m x46630 or x466xx
# Bsus4 x24400
# Asus4 x02200
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#Capo on 1st fret.
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#Intro: E B C#m x2
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When I was young, I grew up in a Christian family

I wanted to please my parents

I wanted them to be so proud of me

So I took their faith and I learned their religion

And I went to a church where everyone was a Christian

Chorus:

I’ve strayed far, but I’m fine

I’ve strayed far, but I’m fine

I’ve strayed far, but you’ve been with me God

All this time

Then I went away to school and I found new friends

I wanted to please them too, to be liked by them

And if they didn’t need God, then neither did I

And I got to be so busy, that it pretty much slipped my mind

Chorus.

Now I’m out of school and I’m finally alone

No one to tell me what to do, but no beliefs to call my own

But in my times of loneliness, in my desperate independence

I wondered if there was a God and if he cared where I’d been

Chorus. (this time it’s “I think I’ve missed you God”)

And when I’d run, ‘till I’d run out

When being broken made me look a second time

Now I can see, I can see clearly

That You’ve been with me all this time

Chorus.

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#Subject: c/church_of_rhythm/common_people.crd
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#Common People
#Written by Church of Rhythm (from Not Perfect)
#Transcribed by Mark Guinn (guinnm@pride.nwsc.k12.ar.us)
#6-20-97
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#These chords are easy, so I’m not gonna’ write them down. You can use
#power or open chords. They both sound pretty good (I like to mix them).
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#Chorus:
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We are a common people, each of us a fallen man

Let’s find that common ground and stop drawing lines in the sand

We are a common people, living in a common life

There are ties that bind us all when we look beyond the lines

Common people you and I

Common people you and I

I see a blind man on the street

He doesn’t know what I look like

So he can’t judge the man I am

Except by what he sees inside

I see a child on the street

He doesn’t know the mistakes I’ve made

I know he takes me where I am

He sees a friend not a crusade

Chorus.

I see a brother on the other side

of my crusade, my holy fight

I think I know where I went wrong

when I gave up love to be proved right

I saw a man die on a cross

He forgot the mistakes I’ve made

He died for me the way I was

and He wants me to love the same

Chorus.

Can’t we tear the fences down?

Can’t we rip the labels off?

Can we share the common ground

instead of judging what is not?

Can’t we love instead of hate?

Can’t we trust instead of fear?

Can we stop fighting for a moment

and feel our common fear?

Is it us against them, wrong against right,

black against white, my kind your kind?

There comes a time to put the argument down

and have a party on the common ground!

Chorus.