Bend Joseph Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays555

Bend Joseph by Brandon Heath is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, Am and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
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16
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Verse:
 
C 
I am not my family tree 
F 
These are different leaves, you know 
Am 
There are miles and miles between 
G 
My roots and what I'm tryin' to grow 
C 
I am not the slave they sold 
F 
Nor am I royalty 
Am                 G 
worn them both The finest coat, 
              C 
And rags that barely covered me 


            Am 
But there's mercy in the soil 
F 
Mercy in the sun 
C 
Learnin' to forgive  
     G 
What cannot be undone 
Am  
What was meant to harm 
      F 
Can't harm you in the end 
        C 
Stepped out on a limb I thought my break 
    G 
But love said, 
             Am    F 
It will only bend 
             C     G 
It will only bend 


Verse:
  
C 
I am not my past mistakes 
F 
Labeled by some place in time 
Am 
Nor am I a trophy case 
G 
Tryin' to maintain my shine 
C 
I have dreamed a thousand dreams 
F 
Watch a grain in famine grow 
Am 
I am not my family tree 
                 G    
I have branches of my own 

Bridge:
  
C                      G 
Oh, Does fate resign us too? 
                     Am             
Find shelter for our wounds 
                     F 
Beneath the battered roof of broken dreams 
C                        G 
Oh, But I will choose to stand  
                      Am 
In the shadow of Your hand 
                         F                       
And see what grows when grace has sown the seed 

(Slow Down Strum ) Am 

  F   C   G 
Oh, oh, oh 
                    Am 
These are different leaves, you know 
  F   C   G 
Oh, oh, oh 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante