Sweet Liberty

Words and Music by Tony Roberts

© 1993 HIM Music

Key: G

Verse I:

  G                          G/B            C^maj7                   C/A       D

I tried to tell someone today about this love I’d found

G                                G/B                          C^maj7              C/A

He shook his head, I heard him say “You people are so bound”

A^m                          D⁷                    G         D/F^#        E^m

I tried to show him he was wrong; he just wouldn’t see

A^m                             D/B              E^m7            A^m                 A^m/D

I tried to tell him my chains were gone since Jesus set me free

Chorus:

                    C                          G       A^m/G  G

He called it bondage; I call it sweet liber - ty

                       D

He said “You folks can’t do a thing”

            G                               G⁷

I said “We do whatever we please”

                       C

He said “The law has got you bound”

            G                                  C²

I said “The Truth has set my free”

                    A^m7                      G/D   D⁷

He called it bondage; I call it sweet liberty

Verse II:

G                              G/B                   C^maj7         C/A      D

I told him “Ask any junkie that you find on any street

G                              G/B                   C^maj7                C/A

Just what price that he would pay if he could be set free

A^m                   D⁷                        G    D/F^#    E^m

I believe he’d tell you, ‘I’d give anything at all

A^m                              D/B            E^m7             A^m                  A^m/D

But I’m a prisoner of habit and I can’t break through these walls’”

Bridge:

C                          G/B         C/A                   G

There is none so bound as he who will not see

         C               G/B                        A^m                                    C/D

That he that the Son hath set free; he’s the one that’s really free