Baptism Song

 

 

Am         G                          D                                             F             C                        G            D

I’ll not take another step today, until they lay me down in that watery grave,

 Am             G                D                                                   F                 C                G                  D

  The old man has finally died, we’re gonna bury him here, nobody will cry,

     F                       C                          G          D

A new man is rising on the other side.

 

 

D                                                            C                                       D

Arise and go to the southern road, the Lord said the Phillip one day,

              D                                                           C                                  D

There a tall dark man, from a distant land, had come down Jerusalem way,

D                                                      G                     C                            D

After he had preached the word of God to him, he heard him joyfully say,

  D                                                                        C            G          Asus    A

“Look, here is water, what’s to keep me from, being baptized today.”

 

Chorus

 

 

Paul and Silas singing praise to God in a jail in Philippi.

The earth starts to shaking, the walls starts to breaking and the doors flew open wide,

The jailer drew his sword to take his life, he thought they’d all escaped,

When a voice cried, “Wait, we’ll are still here,” he said, “What must I do to be saved?

 

 

Chorus

 

 

John was preaching by the Jordan river, the people were turning from their sin,

Jesus came to him, went down in the water to be baptized by him.

John said Lord you need to baptize me, I’m not the one to do this.

Jesus said, “Permit it at this time to fulfill all righteousness.”

 

 

 

Words and Music by Steve Tichenor

© 1979 First Step Publishing

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