Capo 2nd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Innocence and suffering, loneliness and grace

Pain and love and beauty, laughter death and faith

Where the rising fortune, meets the setting sun

 I'm afraid my friend when one is left, it's just the same as none

Chorus

I will always stand beside you

 Defend you and mend you, sanctify you

 I'll hold you and keep you and fight beside you

 Follow you down love, I'm right behind you

Bridge

God make a road straight, God make a road true

 Saint Isabelle is coming through

God make a road straight, God make a road true

 Saint Isabelle coming through

Intro

 The textbook's on the table, the radio's on the shelf

 And thank you for the offer, but I'll sing this one myself

 In reverential silence, the crowd sang the pews

 I climbed and climbed for hours, but oh my what a fuse

Chorus

Bridge

Intro

 I'm surprised you didn't come forward when the cops dragged me away

 There's a museum in the Netherlands, I hope to see again some day

 There's a painting of a woman, gathering wood it's almost dark

 In a world bereft of meaning, there's a flicker in the hearth

Chorus

I will always stand beside you

 Defend you and mend you, sanctify you

 I'll hold you and keep you and fight beside you

 Follow you down love, I'm right behind you

 And, follow you down love, I'm right behind you

 And, follow you down love, I'm right behind you

Bridge

Intro

Innocence and suffering, loneliness and grace

Pain and love and beauty, laughter death and faith

Where the rising fortune, meets the setting sun

 I'm afraid my friend when one is left, it's just the same as none

Chorus

I will always stand beside you

 Defend you and mend you, sanctify you

 I'll hold you and keep you and fight beside you

 Follow you down love, I'm right behind you

Bridge

God make a road straight, God make a road true

 Saint Isabelle is coming through

God make a road straight, God make a road true

 Saint Isabelle coming through

Intro

 The textbook's on the table, the radio's on the shelf

 And thank you for the offer, but I'll sing this one myself

 In reverential silence, the crowd sang the pews

 I climbed and climbed for hours, but oh my what a fuse

Chorus

Bridge

Intro

 I'm surprised you didn't come forward when the cops dragged me away

 There's a museum in the Netherlands, I hope to see again some day

 There's a painting of a woman, gathering wood it's almost dark

 In a world bereft of meaning, there's a flicker in the hearth

Chorus

I will always stand beside you

 Defend you and mend you, sanctify you

 I'll hold you and keep you and fight beside you

 Follow you down love, I'm right behind you

 And, follow you down love, I'm right behind you

 And, follow you down love, I'm right behind you

Bridge