C                    F/A                  C         F
A long time ago they put me on a train to Selma, Alabama
C                     F              C           F
And I rode that train all the way to Tala... Taladega
   F                        G
My papa said son you better educate your mind
      Em                Am
So he sent me away to a school for the blind
  F                                 G/E
I guess there were good times and I know there were bad
      C                             Am      G F     G
But I never blamed the Lord for the trouble I had

[Chorus]
C                               F
While they stayed on the gospel side
C                      F
I stayed on the gospel side

[Instrumental]
Am  G    C  F  C  F

[Verse]
C                
Well the teachers there
 F                C          F
soaked the rope in water overnight
C
and I was bound to get a whoopin'
 F                 C           F  
if I did wrong, or if I did right
       F                      G
I was lost sometime and now I'm found
     C                     F
Amazing grace how sweet the sound
  F                             G
one night on the radio I heard the Golden Gate Quartet
  C                                  Am            G       F    G
I started singin' for the Lord and I ain't stopped singin' yet


[Chorus]
C                      F
I stayed on the gospel side
C                      F
I stayed on the gospel side

Am         G              F
I seen the sinner and the sanctified
                    G      C
but I stayed on the gospel side

[Bridge]  
Am  Em  Am  Em  F 


[Verse]
C                    F                    C         F
When my work is done and I'm finally goin' home to see my maker
C                                    F              C           F
Nothin' scarin' me in this world no more, not the devil or the undertaker
F                 G
I'll finally see my father's face
C                       F
hold my mother close and feel her grace

[Chorus]
C                           F
I just stayed on the gospel side
C                      F
I stayed on the gospel side
Am         G              F
I seen the sinner and the sanctified
         F             G      C
though I stayed on the gospel side
C                      F
I stayed on the gospel side
C                      F
I stayed on the gospel side)

[Outro]
Am         G              F
I seen the sinner and the sanctified 
F G C