I Love To Tell The Story Chords

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I Love To Tell The Story by Emmylou Harris is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F, G7, Am and E7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			C                           F              C 
I love to tell the story of unseen things above 

   G7            C                      G7 
Of Jesus and His glory of Jesus and his love 

                   C       Am                E7 
I love to tell the story because I know 'tis true 

   F            C           G7               C 
It satisfies my longings as nothing else can do 

  
  
G7                 C        F                   C 
I love to tell the story  'twill be my theme in glory 

C                    F        C     G7      C 
To tell the old  old story of Jesus and his love 
  
C                             F           C 
I love to tell the story 'tis pleasant to repeat 

     G7                C                         G7 
What seems each time I tell it  more wonderfully sweet 


             
G7                 C      Am                  E7 
I love to tell the story  for some have never heard 

    F          C              G7             C 
The message of salvation from God's own holy word 
  
G7                 C       F                    C 
I love to tell the story  'twill be my theme in glory 

C                    F        C     G7      C 
To tell the old  old story of Jesus and His love  


  
C                             F                 C 
I love to tell the story  for those who know it best 

     G7            C                             G7 
Seen hungering and thirsting to hear it like the rest 

G7                     C        Am                E7 
And when  in scenes of glory  I sing the new  new song 

      F              C            G7            C 
Twill be the old old story that I have loved so long 

  
   
  G7              C        F                    C 
I love to tell the story  'twill be my theme in glory 

C                     F       C     G7      C 
To tell the old  old story of Jesus and his love 
  
C                     F       C     G7       C 
To tell the old  old story of Jesus and his love 
    	

Chord diagrams

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Metronome

100 BPM Andante