Stay On The Gospel Side

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

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While they stayed on the gospel side
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I stayed on the gospel side

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

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I stayed on the gospel side
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I stayed on the gospel side
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I seen the sinner and the sanctified
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but I stayed on the gospel side

Am  Em  Am  Em  F

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

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I just stayed on the gospel side
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I stayed on the gospel side
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I seen the sinner and the sanctified
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though I stayed on the gospel side
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I stayed on the gospel side
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I stayed on the gospel side)

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I seen the sinner and the sanctified
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