Misc Praise Songs – Come Ye Faithful Raise The Strain (Guitar)

C         G/B      Am    G   C
[tab]F  G  Dm      Gsus4 G C
Of triumphant glad - ness;

        G/B         Am   G    C
God has brought his Is - ra - el

F    C  Dm       Gsus4 G C
In - to joy from sad -  ness;

       F    G    F/A  C      G
Loosed from Pharaoh's bitter yoke

C  Dm    C/E  G   Dsus4 D G
Ja-cob's sons and daugh - ters;

Am       G/B    Am    G    C
Led them with unmoist-ened foot

F       G   Dm      Gsus4 G C
Through the Red Sea wa -  ters.

C        G/B       Am    G  C
'Tis the spring of souls to-day;

F      G   Dm        Gsus4 G C
Christ has burst the pris  - on,

         G/B         Am    G  C
And from three days' sleep in death

F    C   Dm  Gsus4 G C
As a sun has ris - en;

    F   G     F/A  C      G
All the win - ter  of our sins,

C    Dm  C/E   G  Dsus4 D G
Long and dark, is fly  - ing

Am       G/B       Am   G  C
From his light, to whom we give

F    G   Dm        Gsus4 G C
Laud and praise un-dy - ing.

C       G/B      Am    G     C
Now the queen of sea - sons, bright

F    G   Dm     Gsus4 G C
with the day of splen - dor,

         G/B   Am    G   C
with the royal feast of feasts,

F     C   Dm     Gsus4 G C
comes its joy to ren - der;

      F   G   F/A  C       G
comes to glad-den faithful hearts

C   Dm   C/E  G    Dsus4 D G
who with true af - fec - tion

Am      G/B  Am  G    C
welcome in unwearied strains

F    G    Dm    Gsus4 G C
Je - sus' res-ur- rec-tion.

C       G/B       Am    G  C
Neither could the gates of death,

F   G   Dm          Gsus4 G C
nor the tomb's dark por - tal,

        G/B       Am  G   C
nor the watchers, nor the seal

F    C   Dm   Gsus4 G C
hold him as a mor - tal:

    F    G   F/A C        G
For to - day a - mong the Twelve

C      Dm  C/E  G   Dsus4 D G
Christ appeared be - stow-ing

Am      G/B          Am   G    C
Lasting peace, which ev - er - more

F      G  Dm   Gsus4 G C
Pass - es human know-ing.

C      G/B     Am  G  C
"Al-le-lu-ia!" now we cry

F  G   Dm     Gsus4 G C
to our King immor - tal,

         G/B       Am    G   C
who, tri-um-phant, burst the bars

F  C   Dm          Gsus4 G C
of the tomb's dark por - tal;

   F   G  F/A  C        G
"Al-le-lu-ia!" with the Son,

C   Dm  C/E  G  Dsus4 D G
God the Father  prais-ing;

Am     G/B     Am  G   C
"Al-le-lu-ia!" yet a - gain

F  G   Dm     Gsus4  G C
to the Spirit rais - ing.