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

C           C/D C          Csus4 C7
[tab]F             C   G
of triumphant gladness;

D7                  G
God has brought all Israel

D7            G
into joy from sadness;

G7                    C  G   C
Loosed from Pharaoh's bitter yoke

A       Dm       F    G
Jacob's sons and daughters;

C         C/D C      Csus4 C7
Led them with un-moistened foot

F           C       G7 C
through the Red Sea wa-ters.

C             C/D C        Csus4 C7
Spring has dawned on earth to----day;

F                     C  G
Christ has burst from prison,

D                    G
And from three days' sleep in death

D7             G
as the sun has risen;

G7             C  G   C
All the winter of our sins,

A        Dm      F  G
long and grey is flying

C          C/D C       Csus4 C7
From the Light to whom we    give

F        C        G7 C
laud and praise undy-ing.

C          C/D C  Csus4 C7
Now the joyous season,  bright

F               C    G
with the day of splendor,

D7             G
With the royal feast of feasts,

D7                G
comes its joys to render;

G7              C G C
Comes to glad Jerusalem

A        Dm     F  G
who with true affection

C       C/D C    Csus4 C7
Welcomes in unwearied  strains

F      C   G7 C
Jesus' resurection.

C         C/D C         Csus4 C7
Neither might the gates of    death,

F                  C  G
nor the tomb's dim portal,

D7                G
Nor the watchers, nor the seal

D7            G
Hold you as a mortal;

G7         C   G   C
But today amid the twelve

A         Dm      F   G
You still stand bestowing;

C         Am        Csus4 G
Peace and joy which ever-more

F      C     G7  C
passes human knowing