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[Chorus:]
Em D
You get unending love
C
from Paradise
Em D
You can blame it on them
C
But that's just a device
Em D
For ignoring the way
C
You're led to be wise
Cmaj7
In a universe of
D
Infinite size
Run to the Preacher, part 1
Em D
Can you run to the preacher
B7 Em
Can you run to the Lord
Em D
When you're tired of waiting
B7 Em
When you're stiff and bored
Em D
Can you hear Brother Jesus
B7 Em
Can you hear the Christ
Em D
When you fail the first time
B7 Em
And won't try twice
[chorus][Chorus:]
Em D
You get unending love
C
from Paradise
Em D
You can blame it on them
C
But that's just a device
Em D
For ignoring the way
C
You're led to be wise
Cmaj7
In a universe of
D
Infinite size
Mindful Webworks | Best of Spirits | Suite: Experience, page 2
[Chorus:]
Em D
You get unending love
C
from Paradise
Em D
You can blame it on them
C
But that's just a device
Em D
For ignoring the way
C
You're led to be wise
Cmaj7
In a universe of
D
Infinite size
Experience (for Mary Jo)
Em D
I'm looking for the words to say
Em D
To say what's in my mind
Em D
The Truth of my experience
Em D
What only life will find
Em D
There is no message I could make
Em D
No meaning I could show
Em D
Spirits I could not define
Em D
Nor how they help me grow
[chorus]
[Chorus:]
Em D
You get unending love
C
from Paradise
Em D
You can blame it on them
C
But that's just a device
Em D
For ignoring the way
C
You're led to be wise
Cmaj7
In a universe of
D
Infinite size
Em D
Come and take a walk with me
Em D
We'll watch each other live
Em D
Perhaps to touch the unseen one
Em D
And what there is to give
Em D
And if you do not find the one
Em D
As we walk hand in hand
Em D
Perhaps you'll touch the one inside
Em D C
You're given to command
[chorus][Chorus:]
Em D
You get unending love
C
from Paradise
Em D
You can blame it on them
C
But that's just a device
Em D
For ignoring the way
C
You're led to be wise
Cmaj7
In a universe of
D
Infinite size
Mindful Webworks | Best of Spirits | Suite: Experience, page 3
Mind and Body
1.
Em D
Live in the body
B7 Em
It makes the mind reel
Em D
To feel how to think
B7 Em
And to think how to feel
Em D
To touch intuition
B7 Em
And know the appeal
Cmaj7
of Unity
Em D
Live in the body
B7 Em
It's blowing the mind
Em D
To know all the bodies
B7 Em
That get left behind
Em D
Each of their moments
B7 Em
Watched in the unwinding
Cmaj7
of Unity
[chorus][Chorus:]
Em D
You get unending love
C
from Paradise
Em D
You can blame it on them
C
But that's just a device
Em D
For ignoring the way
C
You're led to be wise
Cmaj7
In a universe of
D
Infinite size
Mindful Webworks | Best of Spirits | Suite: Experience, page 4
[Chorus:]
Em D
You get unending love
C
from Paradise
Em D
You can blame it on them
C
But that's just a device
Em D
For ignoring the way
C
You're led to be wise
Cmaj7
In a universe of
D
Infinite size
Bethlehem Babe and Atom Bomb
1.
Em D
Bethlehem Babe and Atom Bomb
D Em
Each emerged from the Human Race
Em D
Enveloping two philosophies
D Em
Opposing face to face
Em D
When some final conflagration
D Em
Leaves you nowhere left to hide
Em D
Will you go and question Jesus
D Em
Where He's teaching you inside?
2.
Em D
All the stallions of the death-watch
D Em
And the furies of our strife
Em D
Overlaid by his dedication
D Em
To the Principal of Life
Em D
Can there be a higher question
D Em
Than deciding between the two
Em D
If mankind's to conquer death
Em D C
Then let living conquer you!
[chorus][Chorus:]
Em D
You get unending love
C
from Paradise
Em D
You can blame it on them
C
But that's just a device
Em D
For ignoring the way
C
You're led to be wise
Cmaj7
In a universe of
D
Infinite size
Mindful Webworks | Best of Spirits | Suite: Experience, page 5
Easter Tune, part 1
C D Well over one thousand Em C worshipers saw a C D man who had died and they Em C all stood in awe of a C D message of hope which he Em C brought from above Cmaj7 We are the children they D love
C D
How much you love is how
Em C
much you're a Son
C D
That's how you're serving the
Em C
Infinite One
C D
Part of the character
Em C
of the Supreme
Cmaj7 D
You never wake from the Best Dream
[chorus][Chorus:]
Em D
You get unending love
C
from Paradise
Em D
You can blame it on them
C
But that's just a device
Em D
For ignoring the way
C
You're led to be wise
Cmaj7
In a universe of
D
Infinite size
Run to the Preacher, part 2
Em D
Can you live in the Spirit
B7 Em
Can you live with you mind
Em D
When you see the truth
B7 Em
But can't face what you find?
Em D
Can you be committed
B7 Em
To being at One
Cmaj7 D
If you can't accept the Son?
[chorus][Chorus:]
Em D
You get unending love
C
from Paradise
Em D
You can blame it on them
C
But that's just a device
Em D
For ignoring the way
C
You're led to be wise
Cmaj7
In a universe of
D
Infinite size
Mindful Webworks | Best of Spirits | Suite: Experience, page 6
[Chorus:]
Em D
You get unending love
C
from Paradise
Em D
You can blame it on them
C
But that's just a device
Em D
For ignoring the way
C
You're led to be wise
Cmaj7
In a universe of
D
Infinite size
Easter Tune, part 2
C D Jesus is risen He's Em risen indeed C D Now that he knows us and Em shared in our need C D We are the children Em C Designed to be one Cmaj7 To live with the Son
[Chorus:]
Em D
You get unending love
C
from Paradise
Em D
You can blame it on them
C
But that's just a device
Em D
For ignoring the way
C
You're led to be wise
Cmaj7
In a universe of
D
Infinite size
Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #14, 2016 Nov 17.
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[Intro] Gm Emb5 F Db C Gave my life -- I gave my life away
1.
Gm F C
Got tired of feeling dirty
Gm F C
Got burned out on living sin
Gm F C Bb
Woke up one morning wondering where I'd been
C Bb C Bb
But I was still alive Yes I was still alive
Gm Emb5 F Db C
So I gave my life -- I gave my life away
2.
Gm F C
When I had drunk up all my money
Gm F C
And paid for love out in the street
Gm F C Bb
And after living through some scenes I didn't want to repeat
C Bb C Bb
I was still alive I was still alive
Gm Emb5 F Db C
So I gave my life -- I gave my life away
Mindful Webworks | Best of Spirits | Gave My Life Away, page 2
3.
Gm F C
I was surprised it was so easy
Gm F C
There wasn't anything I had to do
Gm F C Bb
I put my faith in the Father to see me through
C Bb C Bb
And I was still alive Yes I was still alive
Gm Emb5 F Db C
Although I gave my life -- I gave my life away
[Bridge]
Db Eb Db Eb
I'm not asking for anything He knows all my needs
Db Eb Db Eb
Gonna follow my spirit Wherever it leads
Db C Db C
And thank the Creator By word and by deeds
Db Eb F
He gave me FREEDOM (FREEDOM!)
4.
Gm F C
Got no idea what will happen to me
Gm F C
How I will live -- where I can go
Gm F C Bb
But I finally understand that I don't really need to know
C Bb C Bb
Because I'm still alive And at last I'm free
Gm Emb5
Because he gave me life And he just gave my life
F Db Eb F
right back to me
Performed in Mindful Webworkshop #1
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F6 Cmaj7
What did you want me to do today, Lord?
Bbmaj7 Am7
What do you want me to do?
Bbmaj7 Am7
I've given up. Can't figure it out.
Dm7 G
I'm turning it over to you.
Am7 Cmaj7
My mind is yours. I'm an open book.
Bbmaj7
I've got nothing to hide.
F6 Dm7
What do you want me to do, dear Daddy?
Bb6 Bb7 F7
And He said: Just de- cide.2016 Sep 23: Performed in Mindful Webworkshop Episode #7
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1.
Dm C
Aunt Anna will turn ninety-nine this year
C Dm
All her friends have died off long ago
Dm C
It's harder these days for Aunt Anna to hear
C Dm
It's harder still for us to know
F Em Bb Dm
What thoughts go on in Aunt Anna's head.
Dm C Em
Sometimes her eyes seem so alive.
F Em Bb Dm
This could be the last year for Anna to live,
Dm C Em
We've said for the last twenty-five!
F Em Dm
Aunt Anna still finds it a nice thing to do
F Em Dm
To put all the young people on.
F Em Dm
With a wink and a smile all her mirth will show through
C Dm
And two moments later it's gone.
Mindful Webworks | Best of Spirits | Aunt Anna, page 2
2.
Dm C
Aunt Anna will turn ninety-nine this year
C Dm
Her breath comes sometimes in a wheeze.
Dm C
She burps when she wants like an infant child
C Dm
Aunt Anna has no one to please.
F Em Bb Dm
And the children cannot comprehend
Dm C Em
And the old ones say she's insane
F Em Bb Dm
And sometimes she's so aimless
Dm C Em
She doesn't know what words to say
Dm
or what games to play
F Em Dm
And I'd love to tell her, no, you're not old,
F Em Dm
And I'd love to see her go on
C
smiling
Dm
baby-wise.Aunt Anna stories
Mary Jo's Great-Aunt Anna lived to be ninety-nine years old. It was an honor to know her.
There are many Aunt Anna stories to tell, but I will leave them to those who knew her better. Here, though, are two of my favorites, one from before I knew her, and one of my own experience.
I am told that when President Richard Nixon was resigning, some young person (to Aunt Anna, everyone was a young person) asked her what she thought about it. After a pause, in her creaky old voice, she commented, "He just couldn't believe he got the job!" Probably no political analyst ever summed it up better.
One day wife Mary Jo and I were going across the street for some ice cream, and we were "taking orders" from anyone else who wanted some. My mother-in-law, "Bubby," turned to Aunt Anna and asked, "Do you want some ice cream?" Anna, hard of hearing, croaked, "Whaaat?" Bubby repeated the question, "Do you want some ice cream?" and Anna, frustrated a bit by her ailing body as she often was, asked with greater intensity, "WHAAAAT?" At which point, in that way some people do some times, Bubby spoke loudly enough to be heard, but this time changed the question, "DO YOU LIKE ICE CREAM?" The message registered in Anna's face, a moment of startle, a brief look of puzzlement, and then she repeated, "Do I like ice cream?" She looked me right in the eye, winked boldly, and replied, "Noooo, I don't like ice cream." With a wink and a smile all her mirth would show through; and two moments later, it's gone. I'll always remember.
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1.
C Dm
Why do diamonds come from coal?
F C
Why is New Mexico?
C F Am
Why is fire hot and not
Bb
a crystal like the snow?
C Dm
Why not three sides to a square?
F C
Why is the sky above?
C Am
Why when babies cry
Bb
do mothers care
C
and why is love?
2. Why do birds lay eggs? Why doesn't water run uphill? Why is money? Why is funny? Why is William Bill? Why chip potatoes? Pick tomatoes? Lick an ice cream cone? Why is a crowd so loud? Why do I sometimes feel alone?
3. Why is cheer? Why is fear? Why is L.S.D.? Why was Hitler? Why is Buddha? Why do you and me? Why are what? how? who? how often? When? Which? Where? and Why? Why is a three year old? Why is the Fourth of July? Why why why why why why why? Why is the Fourth of July?
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