What Took You So Long

Words and Music by Ruth E. Brimm

© 2002 HIM Music

Key: G/A^b

Verse I:

D/C             C      D/C                     C

Three little girls, standing hand in hand

G/B       

Anxiously awaiting, to ride the Sunday school van

                  A^m                                     D

With their pink little coats, and their big brown eyes

G                       

    Looking up and down along the road side

           D/C                    C              D/C                     C

As we pulled down the lane, they smiled and they waved

                   G/B                   

Their little pony tails dancing as they jumped in place

               A^m                           D

And as I opened the door to help them climb in

A^m                                      D

     She looked at me and said:

Chorus:

D                           G      A^m                       G/B

What took you so long (what took you so long)

                                         C        C G/B A^m

We thought you’d never come (never come)

                                      D^sus4         D⁷

People pass by one by one (ooh)

                                    G        D

But what took you so long

                              G       A^m                      G/B

What took you so long (what took you so long)

                                              C        C      G/B A^m

So much time has come and gone (come and gone)

                                       D^sus4              D⁷

We though you’d never come (ooh)

                             G

What took you so long

Verse II:

            D/C         C                    D/C                C

As the day went on, the words echoed in my ears

            G/B       

I could hear Jesus speaking; His words were so clear

                     A^m                                  D

You are the salt of the earth, and the light of the world

           G                       

The commission is “Go ye to all preach My word”

                       D/C           C                  D/C              C

You know the harvest is ripe and the laborers are few

               G/B       

Who will tell them the gospel; who will take them the truth

               A^m                                 D

And as I stood their in shame as tears filled my eyes

             A^m                                 D

I could hear lost souls as they cried:

Bridge:

E^m                                       D/F^#         E^m

Time is so short, and His coming is near

A^m                                          D                      E^b

He that hath an ear let him hear…let him hear

Chorus and ending:

                              A^b     B^bm                     A^b/C

What took you so long (what took you so long)

                                         D^b      D A^b/C B^bm

We thought you’d never come (never   come)

                                      E^bsus4                   E^b7

People pass by one by one (one by one)

                                     A^b         E^b

But what took you so long

                                A^b    B^bm                      A^b/C                             

(What took you so long) what took you so long

                                               D^b      D^b      A^b/C B^bm

(So much time has come and gone) come and gone

                                        E^bsus4          E^b7

(We though you’d never come) ooh

                              A^b      B^bm

What took you so long

E^b7                        A^b     B^bm

What took you so long

E^b7                         A^b

What took you so long