🎸 Simple Living chords by Keith & Kristyn Getty

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: D

✝ Verse 1:
  D           Em D/F# G
A rich young man came to ask of  Christ:
            A  D
'Good teacher, will You tell me,
          Em D/F# G
What must I do for eternal life?
            A  D
I've kept Your laws completely.'
   G    D/F#    Em7  A
'Sell all you have, give to the poor,
   G    D/F#   Em7   A    Bm/A  A7
Then heaven's treasure shall be yours.'
  D           Em D/F# G
How hard for those who are rich on earth
           A D
To gain the wealth of heaven.

Em D/F# G  A D

✝ Verse 2:
  D        Em  D/F# G
Now Jesus sat by the offering gate
            A D
As people brought their money:
              Em D/F# G
The rich they filled the collection plate;
         A D
The widow gave a penny.
   G    D/F# Em7   A
'Now she's outgiven all the rest -
  G    D/F#   Em7  A    Bm/A A7
Her gift was all that she possessed.'
   D        Em  D/F# G
Not what you give but what you keep
          A  D
Is what the King is counting.

✝ Instrumental:
D    G     A   D
D    G     A   Bm
Bm   Em    F#m  Bm
Bm   C     G   D  C D

✝ Verse 3:
 D        Em  D/F# G
O teach me Lord to walk this road,
          A D
The road of simple living;
          Em D/F# G
To be content with what I  own
        A D
And generous in giving.
  G   D/F#   Em7
And when I cling to what I have
    G    D/F#  Em7   A   Bm/A  A7
Please wrest it quickly from my grasp;
  D          Em  D/F# G
I'd rather lose all the things of earth
           A D
To gain the things of heaven.