The Blind Boys Of Alabama – Stay On The Gospel Side chords

[Verse]
C                    F                    C         FA long time ago they put me on a train to Selma, Alabama
C                     F              C           FAnd I rode that train all the way to Tala... Taladega
   F                        GMy papa said son you better educate your mind
      C                 FSo he sent me away to a school for the blind
F                                   GI guess there were good times and I know there were bad
      Am                             FBut I never thanked the Lord for the trouble I had

[Chorus]
C                               FWhile they stayed on the gospel side
C                      FI stayed on the gospel side

[Instrumental]
Am  G    C  F  C  F

[Verse]
C                Well the teachers there
 F                C          Fsoaked the rope in water overnight
Cand I was bound to get a whoopin'
 F                 C           F  if I did wrong, or if I did right
       F                      GI was lost sometime and now I'm found
     C                     FAmazing grace how sweet the sound
  F                             Gone night on the radio I heard the Golden Gate Quartet
  Am                               FI started singin' for the Lord and I ain't stopped singin' yet


[Chorus]
C                      FI stayed on the gospel side
C                      FI stayed on the gospel side

Am         G              FI seen the sinner and the sanctified
                    G      Cbut I stayed on the gospel side

[Bridge]  
Am  Em  Am  Em  F ...


[Verse]
C                    F                    C         FWhen my work is done and I'm finally goin' home to see my maker
C                                    F              C           FNothin' scarin' me in this world no more, not the devil or the undertaker
F                 GI'll finally see my father's face
C                       Fhold my mother close and feel her grace

[Chorus]
C                      FI stayed on the gospel side
C                      FI stayed on the gospel side



(And I just stayed on the gospel side
I stayed on the gospel side
I seen the sinner and the sanctified
though I stayed on the gospel side
I stayed on the gospel side
I stayed on the gospel side)

[Outro]
F                    CI seen the sinner and the sanctified ...
F G C