The Valley of Dry Bones:   Ezekiel 37. 1-14   (to the tune ‘I’ve been working on the railroad’)

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Lyrics and Chords: C             Intro:  C / / /  F / / /  G / / /  C / / /

C

I was taken to a valley,

  F                       C

led there by the Lord

                                    Am

Then he set me in the middle

             D                       G

of that valley wide and broad.

                                              C

Bones, dry bones were all around me

  F                  C

on the valley floor.

                                       Am

God commanded me to prophesy,

G                                  C

“Dry bones, hear the Lord!

C                                 F

I will give you breath! I will give you life! 

   G                         C

You’ll know I am Lord!”     (repeat last two lines in each chorus) C / / / F / / / G / / / C / /  (also intro)

So I spoke unto the dry bones,

heard a scary sound.         

All these bones just came together,

rattling right out loud!

I saw skin and flesh and tendons,

cover them around.

But I could not hear them breathe at all,

there upon the ground.

“Come O Breath!

From the four winds!”        

He told me what to say!     

“Come O Breath,

breathe into the slain!”        

He told me what to say!      

So they breathed when I obeyed him, 

rose up, came to life!

Very soon there was an army,

I started wondering why?

Then God spoke again unto me,

“Say to Israel,

You who say that all your hope is gone

Come and listen well!

I will give you breath! I will give you life!                 

You’ll know I am Lord!”  X2  instrumental

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