Misc Praise Songs – Derrol Sawyer - How Long (Guitar)

     C               G
How long, will they wait?

            Am
Don't they want to walk through 

       F
that beautiful gate

       C                     G
That Jesus is goin to swing back

          Am         F
on it's hinges, one day

       C                      G         C   F G
that Jesus is going to swing wide, one day

           C            G
Are they really having fun?

         Am                       F
or just tryin' to drown out the voice 

                       C             G
of the one, calling softly, "Come to Me,

        Am                  F
You've been to long on the run."

           C             G            C     F G
Calling softly, "Come to Me, I'm the One."

  F                    G          
There are so many who care, saying,

  C      Bm          Am 
"Yes, I want to be there.

       F                                G 
(But) Life right here right now is so grand."

                C       Bm            Am
They're like children playing in the sand.

                   F                    G
Their carefully fashioned worlds will stand,

           F            G
till the first storms come.

         C            G
I have found I have friends,

               Am
and there are many I don't know 

          F
walking down a dead end.

            C                     G
Saying, "Everything looks fine to me."

                Am                       F
While they're asleep to the warning God sends.

            C                      G
Saying, "Everything looks fine to me,

              C       F  G
no crisis impends."

       C        G
Was it so, long ago, 

    Am                    F
I thought I could wait because I'd know,

           C                       G
When the winds of strife were let go.

           Am      F
That isn't so, Oh no.

           C                 G
Because people who wait too long,

            C    F  G
just won't go.

  F                    G          
There are so many who care, saying,

  C      Bm          Am 
"Yes, I want to be there.

       F                                G 
(But) Life right here right now is so grand."

                C       Bm            Am
They're like children playing in the sand.

                   F                    G
Their carefully fashioned worlds will stand,

           F            G
till the first storms come.