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chords-Wondrous Love

11 May 04 - 12:41 PM (#1182986)
Subject: chords-Wondrous Love
From: GUEST,carolyn

I have hunted but can't find chords to Wondrous Love. I know it is often done a capella, and is also a shape-note song, but I want to do it with guitar chords. Some chords I can figure out, but some changes elude me.

11 May 04 - 12:48 PM (#1182991)
Subject: RE: chords-Wondrous Love
From: masato sakurai

Chords by Rich DeRuiter

11 May 04 - 12:53 PM (#1182992)
Subject: RE: chords-Wondrous Love
From: Joe Offer

Hi - here's what's suggested in the Rise Up Singing songbook:


What wondrous love is this, oh my soul, oh my soul,
What wondrous love is this, oh my soul,
What wondrous love is this that caused the Lord of bliss
To bear the dreadful curse for my soul for my soul,
To bear the dreadful curse for my soul.

  DmC  DmC  Dm  C
  Am   FC   Dm  Dm
  F    G    Am  Dm
  DmC  DmC  Dm  C
  Am   FC   Dm  Dm


Each grouping represents a measure. If there are two chords together, play each for half the measure.
I'm not a much of a guitarist, so I just copy what I see.
-Joe Offer-

11 May 04 - 01:21 PM (#1183005)
Subject: RE: chords-Wondrous Love
From: GUEST

Thanks, but eek! I'm just doing strum-along chords. There are too many in there and I am having trouble figuring out the important ones. Think Blue Highway's version in their gospel album of the same title.

11 May 04 - 01:25 PM (#1183008)
Subject: RE: chords-Wondrous Love
From: GUEST,carolyn

Actually, I have the Rise up singing book. But it was hard to assign the chords they wrote out to the particular phrase they were supposed to go with. Some of them just didn't sound right when I tried it. At least the way I'm trying to do it off the BH album. I suppose that there might be variations on which note is sung at certain words from different sources.

11 May 04 - 03:02 PM (#1183101)
Subject: RE: chords-Wondrous Love
From: GLoux

Laura Boosinger does a beautiful version on her "My Carolina Home" CD with very spare chords while she accompanies herself on fingerstyle guitar.

-Greg

11 May 04 - 03:26 PM (#1183115)
Subject: RE: chords-Wondrous Love
From: harpgirl

thanks for the LB link, Greg. I just love how LB sings Little Moses on the Autoharp Album. I'm going to order a CD. I guess I should go through Dick....

09 Mar 11 - 09:24 PM (#3110798)
Subject: RE: chords-Wondrous Love
From: GUEST

I think Blue Highway is using a diferent arangement than the dm chord shapes.