C            C/B            Am               Am/G            B
Somewhere in Vietnam a nineteen year old soldier stumbled from a bar room
   B              B/A                 B/G            B/F             C
He said I must be seeing things, that bourbon hit me like a baseball bat
   C               C/B       Am             Am/G          D
In Belfast, Ireland a little lady dropped a shovel in her garden
       B                B/A                B/G           B/F              C
As she raced across her yard and asked her neighbor Mrs. Clancy "What was that?"

   C              C/B           Am                Am/G           B
In Memphis, Tennessee a teacher raised the window closest to the river
        B               B/A                  B/G           B/F             C
And the children in her classroom swore they heard a choir singin down the street
   C             C/B          Am          Am/G          B
In Washington, D.C. a private secretary's lips began to quiver
        B              B/A            B/G             B/F            C
And the President just put aside some papers and rose quickly to his feet

D          D/C#        D/B            D/A            C
I lay in a cheap motel in the arms of someone else's woman
C              C/B               Am                  Am/G         D 
When a loud explosion rocked the room and turned the morning into night
D               D/C#          D/B                D/A        C
I jumped out of bed and ran into the street with hardly any clothes on
    C              C/B               Am                Am/G              D 
And as the sky lit up my heart stood still and I could feel my face turn white

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G               G/F#                   Em                                  D
All at once the clouds rolled back and there stood Jesus Christ in all his glory
      D            D/C#             D/B            D/A                A   E  A
And I realized the saddest eyes I'd ever seen were lookin straight at me

  C              C/B          Am          Am/G            D
I guess I was awakened by the penetrating sound of my own screaming
   B              B/A             B/G            B/F             C
It didn't take me long to stumble out of bed and fall down on my knees
   C                    C/B                Am               Am/G       D
As tears rolled down my face I cried "Dear God I'm thankful I was only dreaming
   B             B/A             B/G            B/F              C
If I never go to hell Lord it?ll be because you scared it out of me