Misc Originals – David Warmke - The Covenant (Guitar)

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[Chorus]
G                                               D
No Contracts, no lawyers or no courts in those days

Em                                              C
Just your word, a covenant with its blessing and curse

G                                 Bm              Am
A gift  sandal, maybe bull split in two, all you needed

Em                              C    G
3000 years ago that was the Hebrew way
[Verse 1]
G                               D
Two men met made an agreement

Em                              C
Took an animal butterflied it in two

G                                       D
Both walked the blood trail between the half’s

Em                                C
Then a feast of the animal sealed the deal 
[Verse 2]
G                                       D
A blessing if keep it a curse if you breached

Em                                      C
That was good enough, God was the witness

G                                   Am
It was simple but powerful not taken lightly

Em                                C
3000 years ago that’s just was the way 
[Chorus]
G                                               D
No Contracts, no lawyers or no courts in those days

Em                                              C
Just your word, a covenant with its blessing and curse

G                                 Bm              Am
A gift  sandal, maybe bull split in two, all you needed

Em                              C    G 
3000 years ago that was the Hebrew way
[Verse 3]
G                     D
God made a promise to Abram

Em                     C 
I am the LORD will give you this land 8 

G                                       Am
But how am I to know that I shall possess it?”

Em                                             C
Bring me a heifer, a female goat t, a ram all three years old, 
[Verse 4]
G                                               D
Cut them in half, and laid each half side by side 

Em                                              C 
Abram asleep a smoking fire pot a flaming torch passed through 

G                                             Am
I make a covenant with you Abram, “To your offspring I 

Em                                C           G
give[ this land, from the rivers Euphrates to the Nile
[Chorus]
G                                               D
No Contracts, no lawyers or no courts in those days

Em                                              C
Just your word, a covenant with its blessing and curse

G                                 Bm              Am
A gift  sandal, maybe bull split in two, all you needed

Em                              C    G 
3000 years ago that was the Hebrew way
[Verse 5]
G                                               D
For Abram a one sided covenant, unconditional

Em                            C
Only God would be cursed if broken

G                                            Am
God gave them the land, they often forgot their blessings

Em                               C
Went their own way for most of 2000 years
[Verse 6]
G                                                    D
By 30 AD Enough He replaced the Jewish nation with the Church 

Em                                      C 
Jesus the Sacrifice, Cursed and on the Cross

G                               Am
Now a new better convent with us all

Em                                C
Forgiveness and salvation for all, just believe
[Outro]
G                                        C              Dm
No Contracts, No physical Temple, no animal sacrifices these days

Em                                      C 
Just Gods word, grace and Jesus on the cross 

G                                             Am
That New Covent remembered with every Holy Communion

Em                                  C            G
His sacrificed body giving eternal life, available to all

Em                                      C              G
His sacrificed body giving eternal life, available to all