Key: C
Introduction:
Verse
C F C
There's a family Bible on the table
Am D G7
Each page is torn and hard to read
C F C
But the family Bible on the table
F C G C
Will ever be my key to memories.
C F C
At the end of day when work was over
Am D G7
And when the evening meal was done
C F C
Dad would read to us from the family Bible
F C G7 C
And we'd count our many blessings one by one.
F Bb F
I can see us sittin' 'round the table
C
When from the family Bible dad would read
F C
I can hear my mother softly singing
F C G7 C
Rock of Ages, Rock of Ages cleft for me.
Verse
C F C
This old world of ours is full of troubles
Am D G7
But this old world would oh, so better be
C F C
If we?d find more Bibles on the table
F C G7 C
And mothers singing Rock of Ages cleft for me.
F Bb F
I can see us sittin' 'round the table
C
When from the family Bible dad would read
F C
I can hear my mother softly singing
F C G7 C
Rock of Ages, Rock of Ages cleft for me.