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Abraham
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(Submitted by Matthew T Velazquez <simplyt@comcast.net>)

CADGCE tuning, capo on 3rd fret.


Yet another no-real-chords Mike Clem tune.  C fingering, more or less.

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I have regrets, and most I can forget
But one stays with me like an arm
No matter where I am
I feel like Abraham
I put my blade inside its sheath,
And find it's not a bluff

The only thing I've learned
From one time being burned
It can only be a lesson learned
If you get a second chance
To take a different stance
I blew my one and only chance
And once was not enough

           A holy  shepherd near the dawn of man           has his
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6|-/5----------5--|----------------|-7-------7------|----------------|

   Faith put        to the           test
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6|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------|

To prove his        strength, to     prove his        grace and
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4|-2--------------|-5--------------|-3--------------|-3--------------|
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   love
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       The fastest angel is          sent from high   keeps the
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   knife from       his son's        chest            He said, "That'll
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   do          (that'll do) That'll   do  (that'll do)  That'll
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   do
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4|-0--------------|----------------|----------------|-----------0----|
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Well how do you prove love?
Or what a man's made of?
I don't make these ambitions mine
I just want him to know
God I miss him so
I kiss his portrait by my bed
And sleep with his old stuff

I have regrets, and most I can forget
But one stays with me like an arm
No matter where I am
I feel like Abraham
I put the blade inside its sheath,
And wish it were a bluff
This Abe has had enough