The Rochesters - This Blessed Old Book

      [Verse 1]
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It's a well of pure water when I'm thirsty and dry,
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Bread when I'm hungry and worn;
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When the battle is raging, it's my faithful sword,
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A shelter from life's troubled storm.
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It's a light to my pathway and a lamp to my feet
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When the world gets so dark I can't see,
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And I've not made a change in one word that it says,
       C           G         C2
But it sure made a change in me.


[Chorus]
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This blessed old Book that I hold in my hand,
     G                      C
It's true from beginning to end,
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It's a solid foundation where I firmly stand,
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Sin kept me from it; now it keeps me from sin.


[Verse 2]
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When I think what it cost just to hold in my hand,
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It reminds me that I owe a great debt
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To all of the martyrs who'd go to the stake
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And quote it with their dying breath.
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Now its critics are many, and believers are few,
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But one thing I've found to be true:
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If you find when you read it that there's something wrong,
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Then there's something wrong with you.


[Chorus]
     G                       F          C
This blessed old Book that I hold in my hand,
     G                      C
It's true from beginning to end,
       G                      F          C
It's a solid foundation where I firmly stand,
F           C               G             C2
Sin kept me from it; now it keeps me from sin.