Let The Lower Lights Be Burning Chords
by Johnny Cash
Let The Lower Lights Be Burning by Johnny Cash is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, D7, G7 and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C
Brightly beams our Father's mercy
D7 G7
From His lighthouse evermore,
C F
But to us He gives the keeping
C G7 C
Of the lights along the shore.
F C
Let the lower lights be burning!
D7 G7
Send a gleam across the wave!
C F
Some poor fainting, struggling seaman
C G7 C
You may rescue, you may save.
Dark the night of sine has settled,
Loud the angry bellows roar;
Eager eyes are watching, longing,
For the lights, along the shore.
Let the lower lights be burning!
Send a gleam across the wave!
Some poor fainting, struggling seaman
You may rescue, you may save.
Trem your feeble, lamp my brother,
Some poor sailor tempest tossed,
Trying now to make the harbor,
In the darkness may be lost.
Let the lower lights be burning!
Send a gleam across the wave!
Some poor fainting, struggling seaman,
You may rescue, you may save.