Red Letters Chords

Capo 4th fret
Original Key G#m

[Intro]
Em  D  G     C
Em  D  G     C
 
[Verse 1]
 
Em             C      G
There I was on death row
D                   C
Guilty in the first degree.
Em                C      G
Son of God hanging on a hill,
D               C
Hell was my destiny.
   Em                  C      G
The crowd was shouting crucify,
D                               C
Could’ve come from these lips of mine.
   Em               C       G
The dirty shame was killing me,
                D                 C
It would take a miracle to wash me clean.
 
 
[Chorus 1]
 
       G        C     G
Then I read the red   letters
        D               G
And the ground began to shake.
           Em            C
The prison walls started falling
               D               Em  D  G     C
And I became a free man that day.
 
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
Em                  C      G
Felt like lightning hit my veins.
   D                   C
My dead heart began to beat.
Em              C       G
Breath of God filled my lungs
        D                 C
And the Holy Ghost awakened me.
          D                 C
Yeah, the Holy Ghost awakened me
 
 
[Chorus 2]
 
       G        C     G
When I read the red   letters
        D               G
And the ground began to shake.
           Em            C
The prison walls started falling
               D               G
And I became a free man that day.
 
 
[Bridge]
 
    Em               D
For God so loved the whole wide world
         G           C
Sent his only Son to die for me.
Em                       D
Arms spread wide for the whole wide world,
    G                      C
His arms spread wide where mine should be.
G                D   G
Jesus changed my destiny.
 
 
[Chorus 3]
 
           G        C     G
Thank you, God, for red   letters
         D               G
When the ground began to shake.
            Em           C
The grace of God started falling
               D               G
And I became a free man that day.
           Em            C
The prison walls started falling
           D          Em  D  G     C      G
And I am a free man today.