Sam's Song Chords
by Chris Rice
Sam's Song by Chris Rice is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of E. It uses the chords E, A, C#m, B, D and F#7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: E A E
E A E
Grass is always greener on the other side
E A E
The search is never over in the pastures of my mind
C#m
Is the meaning of happiness drowning in smiles
B
Or that dreadful world I left behind?
E A
O Lord grant the grace to accept who I am
B E
Who I am, that You have designed
D A E
I know there a plan that you have up your sleeve
D A E
Rabbi, teach me the faith to believe
C#m B
It the only way my life will ever make sense to me
E B A E
Ohhhh, li-de-di, li-de-di, li-de-di
E A E
I can never measure, better things are all around
E A E
I be bitter and chained to the beauty I never found
C#m
But the strength of my Lord love, it shatters the scale
B
And its depth gives a new peak to climb
E A
And it grants me the grace to accept who I am
B E
Who I am, that You have designed
D A E
I know there a plan that you have up your sleeve
D A E
Rabbi, teach me the faith to believe
C#m B
It the only way my life will ever make sense to me
F#7 B F#7 B
And my resting place is taught by love
F#7 B C#m A B
It the only peace I know of . . . oh I know of
E A E
So when my heart is beaten by the standard of the law
E A E
I just remember Jesus, and I found my favor with God
C#m
the fire of my Lord love it burns up the scale
B
And its depth gives a new peak to climb
E A
And it grants me the grace to accept who I am
B E
Who I am, that You have designed
D A E
I know there a plan that you have up your sleeve
D A E
Rabbi, teach me the faith to believe
C#m B
It the only way my life will ever make sense to me
E B A E
Ohhhh, li-de-di, li-de-di, li-de-di
B A E
Li-de-di, li-de-di
A B E
Li-de-di, de-da-di