Chorus:

G		   d

Danieldaniel and the sacred harp

C		   g

Dancing through the clover.

C	    bm

Danieldaniel would you mind

D7	   g

If I look it over.



Verse:

G			  c			d7  g

I heard of this famous harp years ago back in my home town

C				 d	 em

But I sure never thought old daniel be the one to come and bring it around

G	    d	  c		   g

Tell me daniel how the harp came into your posession.

D 		 c		   g

Are you one of the chosen few who will march in the the procession? 

C	 em



And daniel said:

G 		  d		  g	    d

The sacred harp was handed downfrom father unto son

C	   bm 	   am 	 d7

And me not being relatedi could never be the one.

G		 d	  g		 d

So I saved up all my silverand took it to a man

C 	  bm		   am 	   g

Who said he could deliver the harpstraight into my hand.



Em		   a

Three years I waited patiently

D			   c

'till he returned with the harp from the sea of galilee.

Em		   a

He said there is one more thing I must ask

D		  c

But not of personal greed.

Bm			 am

But I wouldn't listen I just grabbed the harp

D7 	    g

And said take what you may need.



G			 c			 d	  g

Now daniel looked quite satisfiedand the harp it seemed to glow.

C		   d  em

But the price that daniel had really paidhe did not even know.

G		   d7

Back to his brother he took his troubled mind.

C		   g

And he said dear brother I'm in a bind.

D7

But the brother would not hear his tale

C		    g

He said old daniel's gonna land in jail.

G		   d

So to his father daniel did run

G		   d

And he said oh father what have I done.

C		  bm			 am

His father said son you've given inyou know you won your harp

G

But you lost in sin.



Em			  a

Then daniel took the harp and went high on the hill

D				  c

And he blew across the meadow like a whippoorwhill.

Em			   a

He played out his heart just the time to pass

D		    c		    g

But as he looked to the groundhe noticed no shadow did he cast.



Repeat chorus