Pierce Pettis

Miriam Chords

(Capo on 4. Pierce finger picks the chords, but strumming them sounds fine, too.)

G    Cadd9           D  
  No banners were unfurled

G      Cadd9             D
  When God stepped into world

Bm                             C          G         Cadd9       D
  Held in the arms of a little girl named Miriam

G                 Cadd9    D
   Now, who would ever believe

G          Cadd9          D
  The fiancee, the family

Bm                   C         G        Cadd9     D
  the teenage pregnancy of Miriam

Bm                           C
  But laws of nature were suspended

Bm                    C                         G
  Death sentances recended Throughout all the world

        Cadd9              D             G           Cadd9      D
  All because of a little girl named Miriam

G         Cadd9                 D
  Mideval paintings glaring down

G         Cadd9                 D
  Stoney figures judge and frown

Bm                          C                      G           Cadd9         D
  And wearing a halo like a crown, could that be Miriam?

G            Cadd9                   D
  In gentile temples stained glass swirls

G          Cadd9         D
  A cherubim with golden curls

Bm                         C           G          Cadd9          D
  Oh how unlike the hebrew world of Miriam

Bm                     C
  I don't know if you acended

Bm                         C
  I don't care what's been amended

                       G        Cadd9             D            G         Cadd9          D
  It was once your miracle, the faith of a little girl named Miriam

  G           Cadd9       D
  Oh, you are blessed indeed

G                Cadd9          D
  Blessed is the fruit of your tree

Bm                  C               G            Cadd9      D
  Yeshewah, King of Kings, Son of Miriam

G    Cadd9              D
  No banners were unfurled

G                  Cadd9        D
  When God stepped into the world

Bm                             C             G             Cadd9          D
  Held in the arms of a little girl named Miriam

(continue with chord progression and end on D)