Misc Praise Songs – I Sing A Song Of The Saints Of God (Guitar)

  C       Am         G         C
I sing a song of the saints of God

Am          C     G   C
patient and brave and true.

G   Am         Em         F     G7  C
Who toiled and fought and lived and died

        G         D7       G
for the Lord they loved and knew.

    C         F          Dm        G
And one was a doctor and one was a queen

    C         Am          F      G7
and one was a shepherdess on the green.

          C           Em        F
They were all of them saints of God

G7    C        F    Dm    C  G7   C
and I mean God help me to be one, too.

      C        Am       G        C
They loved the Lord, so dear, so dear

Am         C    G    C
God's love made them strong.

G     Am          Em        F  G7  C
They followed the right for Jesus' sake,

        G              D7         G
for the whole of their good lives long.

    C         F           Dm        G
And one was a soldier and one was a priest

    C   Am         F            G7
and one slain by a fierce, wild beast.

            C       Em      F  G7      C
And there's not any reason, no not the least

    F  Dm       C  G7   C
why I shouldn't be one, too.

      C        Am      G    C
They lived not only in ages past

        Am          C   G     C
They're hundreds of thousands still.

G   Am       Em              F  G7  C
The world is bright with the joyous saints,

     G          D7    G
who love to do Jesus' will.

        C            F             Dm          G
You can meet them at schools or at lanes or at sea

    C           Am           F           G7
in church or in trains or in shops or at tea.

         C        Em      F    G7         C
for the saints of God are just folks like me.

    F  Dm     C  G7  C
and I mean to be one too.