The Stanley Brothers - Old Country Church

      [Intro] D

[Verse #1]
  D                                     G         D 
There's a place dear to me where I'm longing to be 
                                    A7 
With my friends at the old country church 
            D                       G           D 
There with mother we went, and our Sundays were spent 
                       A7          D 
With my friends at the old country church 
 
 
[Chorus]

   Precious years of memory's 
            A7               D 
   Oh what joy they bring to me 
                           G  
   How I long once more to be 
            D              A7          D 
   With my friends at the old country church 
 

[Verse #2]
                                G               D 
As a small country boy, how my heart beat with joy 
                               A7 
As I knelt at the old country church 
D                              G         D 
There with Jesus above in his wonderful love 
                      A7          D 
Saved my soul at the old country church 


[Chorus]
 
   Precious years of memory's 
            A7               D 
   Oh what joy they bring to me 
                           G  
   How I long once more to be 
            D              A7          D 
   With my friends at the old country church 
 

[Verse #3]
                                G            D
How I wish that today all the people would pray 
                                A7
As they did at the old country church 
            D                   G           D
If they'd only confess, Jesus surely would bless 
                 A7          D
As he did at the old country church 


[Chorus]
 
   Precious years of memory's 
            A7               D 
   Oh what joy they bring to me 
                           G  
   How I long once more to be 
            D              A7          D 
   With my friends at the old country church