Michael Card – Why (Guitar)

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Chords

Key C (Live version is in Bb
Am      Em7     Am              Em7   C         Em7     Am
Why did it have to be a friend  who chose to betray the Lord

Am      Em7     Am              Em7   C         Em7     Am
Why did he use a kiss to show them? That's not what a kiss is for

C                     G                 Am                    E
Only a friend can betray a friend, a stranger has nothing to gain

Am      Em7     Am      Em7             C         Em7      Am
And only a friend comes close enough to ever cause so much pain

Am      Em7     Am              Em7   C         Em7     Am
And why did there have to be thorny, crown pressed upon His head

Am      Em7     Am              Em7   C         Em7     Am
It should have been the royal one, made of jewels and gold instead

C                     G                 Am                    E
It had to be a crown of thorns, because in this life that we live

Am      Em7     Am              Em7   C         Em7     Am
For all who seek to love, a thorn is all the world has to give

Am      Em7     Am              Em7   C         Em7     Am
And why did it have to be  a heavy, cross He was made to bare

Am              Em7        Am           Em7           C                Em7              Am
And why did they nail His feet and hands, when His love would have held Him there

C                     G           Am                  E
It was a cross for on a cross, a thief was supposed to pay

Am      Em7     Am              Em7   C         Em7     Am
And Jesus had come into the world, to steal every heart away

Am      Em7     Am              Em7   C         Em7     Am
Yes, Jesus had come into the world to steal every heart away
___________________________________________________________________ I'm submitting this because the previous submission was both incomplete and incorrect with some unexpected key changes in the chords unexplained. After listening to the first recording of this song in the album "Known by the Scars" 1984 it seemed he first wrote it in C. In the live album "Circles in the Sand" he plays it half a step down in Bb possibly to accommodate his accompaniment.