LDS Hymns – Oh Say What Is Truth (Guitar)

   G                            C       G
Oh say, what is truth? ’Tis the fairest gem

         C                       D
That the riches of worlds can produce,

    G                      C             G
And priceless the value of truth will be when

          C                   D
The proud monarch’s costliest diadem

   G           D         G
Is counted but dross and refuse.

     G                            C         G
Yes, say, what is truth? ’Tis the brightest prize

         C                     D
To which mortals or Gods can aspire.

   G                             C          G
Go search in the depths where it glittering lies,

    C                       D
Or ascend in pursuit to the loftiest skies:

        G           D         G
’Tis an aim for the noblest desire.

    G                         C        G
The sceptre may fall from the despot’s grasp

          C                         D
When with winds of stern justice he copes.

        G                      C           G
But the pillar of truth will endure to the last,

        C                       D
And its firm-rooted bulwarks outstand the rude blast

        G            D             G
And the wreck of the fell tyrant’s hopes.

     G                            C            G
Then say, what is truth? ’Tis the last and the first,

        C                       D
For the limits of time it steps o’er.

        G                      C                 G
Tho the heavens depart and the earth’s fountains burst,

           C                      D
Truth, the sum of existence, will weather the worst,

 G         D            G
Eternal, unchanged, evermore.