Lord Who Throughout These Forty Days (Lyrics and Chords)

Song Title: Lord Who Throughout These Forty Days (Lyrics and Chords)

Claudia F. Hernaman

Category: Communion, Lent

Verse 1

C     Gsus4  G     C         F   G  Am

Lord, who   throughout these for-ty days,

    Dm Am  F        Esus4  E

For us did fast and pray,

      Am             Em   F        C

Teach us with you to o-vercome our sins

    Dm       Gsus4 G  C

And close by you   to stay.

 

 

Verse 2

C  Gsus4  G   C     F   G   Am

As you   with Satan did con-tend,

    Dm  Am  F       Esus4  E

and did the victory win,

  Am       Em         F       C

O give us strength in you to fight,

   Dm     Gsus4 G  C

in you to conquer  sin.

 

 

Verse 3

C  Gsus4  G    C      F   G   Am

As you    did  hunger and did thirst,

   Dm    Am  F        Esus4  E

so teach us, gracious Lord,

   Am     Em        F     C

to die to self, and so to live

   Dm        Gsus4 G  C

by your most ho - ly  Word.

 

 

Verse 4

C   Gsus4   G     C       F   G  Am

And through these days of pen-i-tence,

    Dm      Am   F     Esus4  E

and through your Passiontide,

   Am   Em      F        C

forevermore, in life and death,

  Dm         Gsus4 G  C

O Lord, with us    a  bide.

 

 

Verse 5

C   Gsus4  G     C       F       G    Am

A - bide   with us, that through this life

   Dm     Am  F        Esus4  E

of doubts and hope and pain,

   Am     Em    F      C

an Easter of  unending joy

   Dm     Gsus4 G  C

we may at last  at-tain!

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Song Title: Lord Who Throughout These Forty Days (Lyrics and Chords)

Claudia F. Hernaman

Category: Communion, Lent