Red Letters Chords

Standard Tuning
CAPO on the 4th Fret
 
Personal Note:  Each time playing the Cadd9 during intro, in between Chorus 1 and Verse 2, or at the end of
the song, I like to hammer on the D string after the first strum.
 
[Intro]
Em  D  G     Cadd9
Em  D  G     Cadd9
 
[Verse 1]
 
Em             Cadd9  G
There I was on death row
D                   Cadd9
Guilty in the first degree.
Em                Cadd9  G
Son of God hanging on a hill,
D               Cadd9
Hell was my destiny.
   Em                  Cadd9  G
The crowd was shouting crucify,
D                               Cadd9
Could’ve come from these lips of mine.
   Em               Cadd9   G
The dirty shame was killing me,
                D                 Cadd9
It would take a miracle to wash me clean.
 
 
[Chorus 1]
 
       G        Cadd9 G
Then I read the red   letters
        D               G
And the ground began to shake.
           Em7           Cadd9
The prison walls started falling
               D               Em  D  G     Cadd9
And I became a free man that day.
 
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
Em                  Cadd9  G
Felt like lightning hit my veins.
   D                   Cadd9
My dead heart began to beat.
Em              Cadd9   G
Breath of God filled my lungs
        D                 Cadd9
And the Holy Ghost awakened me.
          D                 Cadd9
Yeah, the Holy Ghost awakened me
 
 
[Chorus 2]
 
       G        Cadd9 G
When I read the red   letters
        D               G
And the ground began to shake.
           Em7           Cadd9
The prison walls started falling
               D               G
And I became a free man that day.
 
 
[Bridge]
 
    Em               D
For God so loved the whole wide world
         G           Cadd9
Sent his only Son to die for me.
Em                       D
Arms spread wide for the whole wide world,
    G                      Cadd9
His arms spread wide where mine should be.
G                D   G
Jesus changed my destiny.
 
 
[Chorus 3]
 
           G        Cadd9 G
Thank you, God, for red   letters
         D               G
When the ground began to shake.
            Em7          Cadd9
The grace of God started falling
               D               G
And I became a free man that day.
           Em7           Cadd9
The prison walls started falling
           D          Em  D  G     Cadd9  G
And I am a free man today.
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