Man In White chords

Johnny Cash

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  			verse 1 
(G)I studied at the (C)feet of a (G)master, 
(C)Gamaliel we (G)called him, the (A)beauty of the (D)law, 
(C)I was born of the Tribe of Benjamin, I (G)was a Pharisee, 
(C)and I could quote from (G)memory the (D)Holy (G)Torah. 
 
verse 2 
(G)That day that the (C)Nazarene was brought to (G)trial, 
(C)it was on a (G)Sabbath eve ,there was a (A)earthquake when He (D)died, 
(C)just another passing preacher who came (G)up from Galilee, 
(C)blaspheming trouble-(G)maker, we let (D)Him be (G)crucified. 
 
verse 3 (verse chord pattern in (G)) 
Then I thought that I would hear no more about him, 
but his friends found his tomb empty, claimed that he rose from the dead, 
then they said he walked among them with the nail wounds in his hands, 
that King upon a donkey with a thorn crown on his head. 
 
(NOTE: UP ONE KEY. Emphasize somehow the change G->A. 
If you have an instrument to perform the change at your place, i.e. a horn (as on the record),
you might slap a capo on second fret and keep playing the (G) pattern, I think it's more
comfortable) 
 
verse 4 
(A)His followers kept (D)growing in great (A)number, 
(D)and the one that they call (A)Caiaphas mocked (B)us