Awake My Heart With Gladness chords by Songs Of Praise

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

G           D
Awake, my heart, with gladness,
G         C
See what today is done
G          D
Now, after gloom and sadness,
A            D
Comes forth the glorious Sun.
G          C
My Savior there was laid
G           D
Where our bed must be made
G           C
When to the realms of light
G     D     G
Our spirit wings it's flight.

G         D
The foe in triumph shouted
G           C
When Christ lay in the tomb
G         D
But, lo, He now is routed,
A           D
His boast is turned to gloom.
G          C
For Christ again is free
G        D
In glorious victory
G          C
He Who is strong to save
G       D    G
Has triumphed o'er the grave.

G          D
This is a sight that gladdens
G         C
What peace it doth impart.
G        D
Now nothing ever saddens
A         D
The joy within my heart.
G          C
No gloom shall ever shake,
G         D
No foe shall ever take,
G            C
The hope which God's own Son
G      D    G
In love for me hath won.

G             D
Now hell, its prince, the devil
G            C
Of all their powers are shorn
G         D
Now I am safe from evil,
A         D
And sin I laugh to scorn.
G           C
Grim Death with all his might
G       D
Cannot my soul affright
G         C
He is a powerless form,
G     D    G
How er he rave and storm.

G          D
The world against me rageth
G       C
Its fury I disdain
G          D
Though bitter war it wageth
A         D
Its work is all in vain.
G           C
My heart from care is free,
G          D
No trouble troubles me.
G         C
Misfortune now is play
G      D     G
And night is bright as day.


G          D
Now I will cling forever
G          C
To Christ, my Savior true
G           D
My Lord will leave me never,
A          D
Whate'er He passeth through.
G           C
He rends Death's iron chain,
G             D
He breaks through sin and pain,
G            C
He shatters hell's dark thrall,
G    D      G
I follow Him through all.

G          D
To halls of heavenly splendor
G       C
With Him I penetrate
G           D
And trouble ne er may hinder
A        D
Nor make me hesitate.
G          C
Let tempests rage at will,
G          D
My Savior shields me still
G         C
He grants abiding peace
G      D   G
And bids all tumult cease.

G          D
He brings me to the portal
G           C
That leads to bliss untold,
G          D
Whereon this rhyme immortal
A           D
Is found in script of gold
G            C
"Who there my cross hath shared
G           D
Finds here a crown prepared
G           C
Who there with me hath died
G       D  G
Shall here be glorified."