Magnificat

[Intro ]
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    A 
My daddy is a drinker 
    E 
My mama is a thinker 
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I have been chosen 
    D         E 
to bear this child 

       A 
Cant tell you whos the father 
         E 
Im too young to be a mother 
       F#m 
But I know somehow 
     D       E 
I am undefiled, 
      D        E      D     E 
 I am standing proud (ooh, ooh) 
 

 
          A 
In these hills of West Virginia 
           E 
You dont know what youve got in ya 
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til you tunnel down into the mine 

    A 
My mama told me stories 
     E 
Playing in the quarries 
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Searching for diamonds 
D            E 
shed never find 
        D       E    D    E 
We got left behind (ooh, ooh) 

{Refrain} 
A                   E 
Something tells me that this baby 
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Will magnify everything 
         A                  E 
All the good times and the bad times 
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Whatever my troubles and my blessings were before 
            A 
Theyll be more 
 
 
        A 
All the men I know in this town 
       E 
Go to bars and sleep around 
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Girls like me have to deal with the rest 
             A 
And theyll say my life is ruined 
       E 
But I know thats not true and 
      F#m                             D              E 
Its a story for the other folk who choose to be distressed 
             D         E        D    E 
I know that Ive been blessed (ooh, ooh) 
 

 
       A 
And I know my child will suffer 
         E 
And his life will be much rougher 
       F#m                            D               E 
Then a kid born in Charleston with a pool in his backyard 
          A 
But its God who loves the lowly 
          E 
And this baby will be holy 
     F#m 
Wholly mine and I will love him 
        D              E 
and my love will magnify him 

{Refrain} 
A                    E 
Something tells me that this baby 
      F#m             D 
Will magnify everything 
         A                  E 
All the good times and the bad times 
  F#m                         D              E 
Whatever my troubles and my blessings were before 
           A                   E 
Theyll be more,  theyll be more 
           F#m 
Theyll be more 
D                  E                 A 
More and more and more and more and more