From: "Billy J. Davis, II" rumplesn@ipa.net
Words and music: Rich Mullins and Steve Cudworth
Performer: Rich Mullins
Album: Songs

If I Stand

(i capo on the FOURTH fret, this song gets HIGH!)
(Lively melody)
D                            A              D
Well there's more that rises in the morning than the sun,
          G
more that shines in the night than just the moon!
                                           D
There's more than just this fire here that keeps me warm,
      A
and a shelter that is larger than this room...
              D
And there's a loyalty that is deeper than mere sentiment,
            G
and a music higher than the songs that I can sing...
                                      D                 D
The stuff of earth competes for the a-le-e-giance I owe only to the
Giver of all good things...


Chorus
        D                                                       A
So if I stand, let me stand on the promise that You will see me
through...
         G                                                       D
And if i can't let me fall on the Grace that first brought me to You!
                                                                 A
And if i sing let it be for the joy that has born in me the-eese
songs...
         G                                                D
and if i weep let it be as a man who is longing fo-or his ho-ome...


Verse 2
D                             A             D
Well there's more that dances on the prarie than the wind,
          G
more that pulses in the ocean than the tide,
                                        D
there's a love that is fiercer than the love between friends,
     A
more gentle than a mother's, with her newborn by her side...
              D               A                D
And there's a loyalty that is deeper than mere sentiment,
            G
and a music higher than the songs that I can sing!
                                      D
The stuff of earth competes for the a-le-e-giance
      A
I owe only to the Giver of all good things...


Chorus


Tag
         G                   A                            D
Yes if I weep let it be as a man who is longing fo-or his ho-ooomme...!