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Jesus And The Atheist
Recorded by Eddy Arnold  
Written by Billy Austine and Happy Rhodes
 
C
One Saturday night in a barroom
                       G7
A gospel singer walked in
 
And bravely she read from the bible
                                   C
And begged them to turn from their sins
 
 
Oh come unto Jesus she pleaded
              C7             F
He'll be your staff and your rod
                              C
When one of the drinkers said to her
    G7                      C
Why I don't believe in your God
 
  F                          C
I don't rightly know how you prove them
     F                        C
That pack of lies that you've said
   F                    C
If there is a God up in heaven
  G7                         C
I dare Him to strike me down dead
 
    F                         C
The silence that followed was awful
    F                     C
The others stood there in fear
        F                              C
But the drunkard just laughed and kept saying
    D7                 G7
Why doesn't your Jesus appear
 
     C
Then one of the others who stood there
                           G7
Said that's enough of that now
 
What leads you to think that Lord Jesus
                         C
Would bother with you anyhow
 
 
You're only a bum and a drunkard
            C7           F
And nothing that you can say
                             C
Would reach up to God in His heaven
    G7                     C
And make Him go out of His way
 
                             F
And then came the voice of a stranger
    C                         D7
Who stood just outside at the door
  G7                       C
A stranger who said He was passing by
       F                C
But no one had seen Him before
 
 
Oh listen to me all you people
                 G7
The place lit up as He smiled
    C                        G7
Our Lord marks the fall of a sparrow
    C         G7     C
And every man is His child
 
                         F
There's none so great or so lowly
C                      D7
That God's sweet mercy denies
    G7               C
And even the ones to denounce Him
     G7                   C
Will never be lost in His eyes
 
    D7                 G7
And then He lifted His right hand
       C
And He smiled upon everyone 
F                     C
And the last words He said were like music
  G7                    C
I know because I am His son
 
 
Now each who was there will remember
                   C7        F
Those words to His very last day
                         C
When Jesus appeared in a barroom
    G7                      C
And told of God's wonderful way

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