LDS Hymns – O My Father (Guitar)

     C                 G
O my Father, thou that dwellest

       G7                C
In the high and glorious place,

           C            G
When shall I regain thy presence

     G7              C
And again behold thy face?

       F        C
In thy holy habitation,

       G7          C
Did my spirit once reside?

      F              C
In my first primeval childhood

      G                 C
Was I nurtured near thy side?

      C                 G
For a wise and glorious purpose

          G7                C
Thou hast placed me here on earth

        C             G
And withheld the recollection

      G7                 C
Of my former friends and birth;

       F              C
Yet ofttimes a secret something

            G7                C
Whispered, “You’re a stranger here,”

      F               C
And I felt that I had wandered

       G            C
From a more exalted sphere.

      C                    G
I had learned to call thee Father,

         G7             C
Thru thy Spirit from on high,

       C              G
But, until the key of knowledge

       G7                C
Was restored, I knew not why.

       F                   C
In the heav’ns are parents single?

        G7                   C
No, the thought makes reason stare!

         F             C
Truth is reason; truth eternal

         G             C
Tells me I’ve a mother there.

       C                G
When I leave this frail existence,

       G7              C
When I lay this mortal by,

        C             G
Father, Mother, may I meet you

        G7              C
In your royal courts on high?

         F                 C
Then, at length, when I’ve completed

        G7               C
All you sent me forth to do,

          F           C
With your mutual approbation

       G                   C
Let me come and dwell with you.