Misc Praise Songs – O Brother Be Faithful (Guitar)

 G                           C        G
O brother be faithful! soon Jesus will come,

    C             Bm         D7
For whom we have waited so long;

    G                       C
O, soon we shall enter our glorious home,

    G            C  D7         G
And join in the conqueror’s song.

   D7                           G
O brother be faithful! for why should we prove

                            D7
Unfaithful to Him who had shown

     G                       C           G
Such deep, such unbounded and infinite love

                 C D7       G
Who died to redeem us His own.

  G                          C        G
O brother be faithful! the city of gold,

  C               Bm            D7
Prepared for the good and the blest,

  G                         C
Is waiting its portals of pearl to unfold,

  G             C D7        G
And welcome thee into thy rest.

  D7                            G
Then, brother be faithful! not long shall we stay

                          D7
In weariness here, and forlorn,

   G                          C          G
Time’s dark night of sorrow is wearing away,

                 C D7       G
We haste to the glorious morn.

 G                         C          G
O brother be faithful! He soon will descend,

  C          Bm         D7
Creation’s omnipotent King,

  G                          C
While legions of angels His chariot attend,

  G                 C D7       G
And palm wreaths, of victory bring.

 D7                          G
O brother be faithful! and soon shalt thou hear

                               D7
They Savior pronounce the glad word,

  G                               C         G
Well done, faithful servant, they title is clear,

               C  D7      G
To enter the joy of thy Lord.

 G                        C        G
O brother be faithful! eternity’s years

 C                Bm         D7
Shall tell for thy faithfulness now,

  G                                 C
When bright smiles of gladness shall scatter thy tears,

 G             C D7     G
A coronet gleam on thy brow.

 D7                        G
O brother be faithful! the promise is sure,

                                 D7
That waits for the faithful and tried;

  G                         C             G
To reign with the ransomed, immortal and pure,

            C D7      G
And ever with Jesus abide.