How Can I Keep From Singing - Gordon Bok Chords

Chords: C, F, G, Am

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Genre: folk, acoustic, singer-songwriter

This version is how Gordon Bok, Ann Mayo Muir, and Ed Trickett perform it (as

does Pete Seeger).

You can hear their version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz0VT34X0XE

[Intro]

C

[Verse 1]

C F
My life goes on in endless song

C G
Above earth's lamen-tation

C F
I hear the real, though far off hymn

C G C
That hails the new creation

C G C
Above the tumult and the strife

C G
I hear the music ringing

C F C
It sounds an echo in my soul

Am G C
How can I keep from singing?

[Verse 2]

C F
What through the tempest loudly roars

C G
I hear the truth, it liveth

C F
Although the darkness round me close

C G C
Songs in the night it giveth

C G C
No storm can shake my inmost calm

C G
While to that rock I'm clinging

C F C
Since love is lord of heaven and earth

Am G C
How can I keep from singing?

[Verse 3]

C F
When tyrants tremble, sick with fear,

C G
And hear their death-knell ringing,

C F
When friends rejoice both far and near,

C G C
How can I keep from singing?

C G C
In prison cell and dungeon vile

C G
Our thoughts to them are winging.

C F C
When friends by shame are undefiled,

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