Biography:
Gretchen Peters (born November 14, 1957 in Bronxville, New York) is an American singer-songwriter in the folk/country genre. An accomplished song-writer, she won the Country Music Association Song Of The Year award in 1994 for "Independence Day", a hit at the time for Martina McBride. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2014.
Though born in New York, Peter's was raised in Boulder, Colorado, and then moved to Nashville in the late 1980s.
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Other songs:
- Billy 4
- Black Ribbons
- Blackbirds
- Blessing In Disguise
- Border Town
- Careful How You Go
- Child Of Mine
- Circus Girl
- Dark Angel
- December Child
- Drowning In You
- Everything Falls Away
- Five Minutes
- Germantown
- Ghost
- Guadalupe
- Hello Cruel World
- I Aint Ever Satisfied
- I Dont Know
- I Was Looking For You
- I Wonder As I Wander
- Idlewild
- If Heaven
- If I Had A Gun
- In The Bleak Midwinter
- Independence Day
- Jubilee
- Lilies Of The Field
- Love And Texaco
- Love That Makes A Cup Of Tea
- Northern Lights
- On A Bus To St Cloud
- On A Bus To Stcloud
- Over Africa
- Paradise Found
- Picasso And Me
- Prairie In The Sky
- Pretty Things
- Revival
- Saint Francis
- Song For A Winters Night
- Souvenirs
- Sunday Morning Up And Down My Street
- The Aviators Song
- The House On Auburn Street
- The Matador
- The Way You Move Me
- This Town
- This Used To Be My Town
- To Say Goodbye
- Tomorrow Morning
- Truckstop Angel
- Waitin On Mary
- Waiting For Amelia
- Waiting For The Light
- Waiting For The Light To Turn Green
- When All You Got Is A Hammer
- When You Are Old
- When You Comin Home
- Wild Horses
- Woman On The Wheel
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Gretchen Peters - Jubilee
## NOTE: This song was recorded with a piano as the main instrument. ##
## I have attempted to translate that to guitar chords, to the ##
## best of my novice ability. ##
INTRO: Am7 C F C F C Am F C G
N.C. Am F
I got nothing
C F C
To hold me here
F C Dm G C
My old friends have all moved on and disappeared
N.C. Am F
It won't be long now
C F C
Until I fly
F C Dm G C
But oh, my dear ones, how I hate to say goodbye
CHORUS:
F C Am G F
So I sing holy, holy from this prison where I lie
G7 G
My arms reaching up to touch the sky
F C Am G F
I sing holy, holy, hallelujah, I am free
Dm Am7 F G C
So, come on down and join the ju--bilee
N.C. Am F
I don't hunger
C F C
And I don't thirst
F C Dm G C
There is nothing that I need upon this earth
N.C. Am F
My body's broken
C F C
But not my soul
F C Dm G C
You know it's love and only love that's made me whole
CHORUS:
F C Am G F
So I sing holy, holy from this prison where I lie
G7 G
My arms reaching up to touch the sky
F C Am G F
I sing holy, holy, hallelujah, I am free
Dm Am7 F G C
So, come on down and join the ju--bilee
INSTRUMENTAL: C F C F C Am F G
N.C. Am F
I'm an orphan
C F C
Thirty years on
F C Dm G C
You know I miss my father's voice and my mother's arms
N.C. Am F
I was you once
C F C
And now you're me
F C Dm G C
It's in this circle that we make a family
CHORUS:
F C Am G F
And I sing holy, holy from this prison where I lie
G7 G
My arms still reaching up to touch the sky
F C Am G F
I sing holy, holy, hallelujah, I am free
Dm Am7 F G Am7 F
So, come on down and join the ju--bilee
Dm G F G C
Come on down and join the ju--bilee
## NOTE: This song was recorded with a piano as the main instrument. ##
## I have attempted to translate that to guitar chords, to the ##
## best of my novice ability. ##
INTRO: Am7 C F C F C Am F C G
N.C. Am F
I got nothing
C F C
To hold me here
F C Dm G C
My old friends have all moved on and disappeared
N.C. Am F
It won't be long now
C F C
Until I fly
F C Dm G C
But oh, my dear ones, how I hate to say goodbye
CHORUS:
F C Am G F
So I sing holy, holy from this prison where I lie
G7 G
My arms reaching up to touch the sky
F C Am G F
I sing holy, holy, hallelujah, I am free
Dm Am7 F G C
So, come on down and join the ju--bilee
N.C. Am F
I don't hunger
C F C
And I don't thirst
F C Dm G C
There is nothing that I need upon this earth
N.C. Am F
My body's broken
C F C
But not my soul
F C Dm G C
You know it's love and only love that's made me whole
CHORUS:
F C Am G F
So I sing holy, holy from this prison where I lie
G7 G
My arms reaching up to touch the sky
F C Am G F
I sing holy, holy, hallelujah, I am free
Dm Am7 F G C
So, come on down and join the ju--bilee
INSTRUMENTAL: C F C F C Am F G
N.C. Am F
I'm an orphan
C F C
Thirty years on
F C Dm G C
You know I miss my father's voice and my mother's arms
N.C. Am F
I was you once
C F C
And now you're me
F C Dm G C
It's in this circle that we make a family
CHORUS:
F C Am G F
And I sing holy, holy from this prison where I lie
G7 G
My arms still reaching up to touch the sky
F C Am G F
I sing holy, holy, hallelujah, I am free
Dm Am7 F G Am7 F
So, come on down and join the ju--bilee
Dm G F G C
Come on down and join the ju--bilee
Grey Eye Glances
Grey Haze
Grey Holiday
Grey Kingdom
Grey Revell