He’s alive      (Listen to midi)

 

           Am                                                             G                          Am

1. The gates and doors were barred and all the windows fastened down,

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    I spent the night in sleeplessness and rose at every sound.

     Dm                                         G                     Am

     Half in hopeless sorrow and half in fear that they

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     would find us, soldiers breaking through, to drag us all away.

   Am                                                             G                   Am

2.     Just before the sunrise, there was something at the wall,

                                                G                   Am

    the gate began to rattle, a voice began to call.

      Dm                                                   G                     Am

    I hurried to the window, and looked down into the street,

                                                     - G                                            Am

    expecting swords and torches,       and the sounds of soldiers feet.

                     Am                                         G                           Am

3. There was no one there but Mary, so I went down to let her in,

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    John stood there beside me, as she told us where she'd been.

            Dm                                                                                       Am

    She said: `They've moved Him in the night, none of us knows where.

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    the stone's been rolled away, now his body isn't there !

            Am                                               G                    Am

4. We both ran toward the garden, then John ran on ahead,

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    we found the stone and the empty tomb, just the way that Mary said.

          Dm                                                                                Am

    The linen sheet, they wrapped Him in, was just an empty shell,

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    how, or where'd they taken Him, was more than I could tell.

    Am                                                                             G                 Am

5. Something strange had happened there, but just what I did not know,

                                                 G                     Am

    John believed a miracle, but I just turned to go.

                Dm                                         G                Am

    Circumstances, speculation couldn't lift me very high,

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    as I’d seen them crucify Him,        and I saw Him die.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      Am                                               G                        Am

6. Back inside the house again, the guilt and anguish came,

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    erverything I've promised Him just added to my shame.

                  Dm                                                               Am

    When at last it came to choices, I denied I knew His name,

                                      - G                            Am

    even if He was alive,      it wouldn't be the same.

           Am                                               G                            Am

7. But suddenly the air was filled with strange and sweet perfume,

                                                                     G                        Am

    light that came from everywhere drove shadows from the room.

    Dm                                              G                      Am

    Jesus stood before me with His arms held open wide,

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    and I fell down on my knees and just clung to Him and cried.

         Am                                       G                     Am

8. He raised me to my feet and I looked into His eyes,

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    love was shining out from Him like sunlight from the skies.

       F                                         G                        Am

    Guilt and my confusion disppeared in sweet release,

                                                         G                A       ~  A - C - G - D

    and every fear I’d ever had just melted into peace.

 

          Am              C                G  

He is alive, He is alive, He is alive and I'm forgiven,

                 D

heaven's gates are open wide. (3x)

 

              Am              C                G - D      - Am

    He is alive, He is alive, He is ali…..ve.

 

   (orig. = no capo, midi = capo 3rd, Em - D …..)  (Don Francisco)