A Prayer For Charleston by Steven Curtis Chapman, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

A Prayer For Charleston

Biography:

“I know this is not anything like you thought the story of your life was gonna be...but there's so much of the story that's still yet to unfold.” Few people know the pain and the promise in that statement better than Steven Curtis Chapman. The past few years have been an incredible journey that Chapman wouldn’t have chosen, yet has taught him so very much. Those lessons permeate every song on Chapman’s new album The Glorious Unfolding.

Lyrically

Read more on Last.fm

Other songs:

Share this tab

Four years of hard work!

This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!

This song was written by SCC in loving memory of the 9 African American brethren that
left this world on June 17, 2015, in the Charleston church shooting, in South Carolina.

The song, based on Romans 12:21, is originally played with Capo in another key,
but this version is to be played with the standard tuning, without capo.

[Verse 1]:
D Asus4
Tears are falling in Charleston
G
...There're asking why, and no one has the answer
D Asus4
Our hearts are breaking for Charleston
G
...so many lives, in a moment shattered

[Pre-chorus 1]:
Em7 Asus4 G
A thief came to steal and to kill and destroy
Asus4
But the Story isn't over

[Chorus 1]:
G D
...You will not be overcome,
A Bm
...You will not be overcome by evil
G A D
...But you will overcome evil with good

[Verse 2]:
D Asus4
...They were gathered in Charleston
G
...Cause they believed in a Kingdom coming
D Asus4
and while they are grieving in Charleston
G
...We won't forget the love that they were showing

[Pre-chorus 2]:
Em7 Asus4 G
...When the thief came to steal and to kill and destroy
Asus4
Cause that love will not be silenced

[Chorus 2]:
G D
...You will not be overcome,
A Bm
...You will not be overcome by evil
G A D
...You will overcome evil with good

G D
...Love will not be overcome,
A Bm
...Love will not be overcome by evil
G A D
...Love will overcome evil with good. . .

[Inter]:
G D Bm A

G
...Love will overcome

[Bridge]:
D2 A
Father of mercies, God of all comfort...
Em7 G
Comfort every broken heart, comfort every broken heart

D2 G
Father of mercies, God of all comfort
Em7 G
Comfort all the broken hearts, comfort all the broken hearts

[Chorus 2]:
G D
...You will not be overcome,
A Bm
...You will not be overcome by evil
G A D
...You will overcome evil with good

G D
...Love will not be overcome,
A Bm
...Love will not be overcome by evil
G A D
...Love will overcome evil with good. . .

G D
...Your love will o---vercome
A Bm
...Love will always o--ver-come. . .
G A D
Love will overcome. . . evil with good