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I’ll Take The Old Highway

I’ll Take The Old Highway

Intro

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VS1

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There are many new roads we see each day, each one claims they are the way,
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To a life of sa - tis - faction more than we've dreamed.
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They are lined with things that please the eye, but they cannot satisfy
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So I’ve decided to walk the highway with the redeemed.

Chorus

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I'll take the old highway,

The one called straight...

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It's very narrow,   all the way to the gate.
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It started at Cal - va - ry that's where I got on...
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It's an old old highway paved with grace all the way home.

VS2

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This highway may look to worldly men like it's a road to a bitter end
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For we are promised tri - bu - lation all along.
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But the difference is easy to explain for we have everything to gain,

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Bb F/C F/A Bb F/C C7 F Bb7 F
So just count me with that number going home.

Note: Transpose up for sharps and down for flats.

Lyrics and chords to the country gospel song “I’ll Take The Old Highway”