How Old Is Your Old Time Religion - Lets Go To Vespers Cifras

[Intro]
 
F C Bb F
 
[Verse]
 
F              Bb         F
How old is your old time religion?
F                                   C
Is it build upon the rock or on the sand?
F                                 Bb
How deep are the roots of your tradition?
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Do they draw upon the living water of the promised land?
 
F               Bb         F
How old is your old time religion?
F                                     C
How ancient are the hymns you love to sing?
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No, I ain’t saying it’s a competition
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We take what we’ve been given and don’t need to change a thing.
 
[Instrumental]
 
F C Bb
 
[Chorus]
 
F
Let’s go to Vespers
               C
Let’s stay for Compline
            Bb
You take soprano
                  F
And I’ll take the bass line.
              F
Just one more litany
             C
One more prostration
           Bb
One more petition
           F
One more oblation
F
Great clouds of incense
        C
In holy places
               Bb
Bright shining candles
          F
On gilded faces
F
Sing me that tropar
       C
Intone Seven
            Bb             C               F
And I won’t know if I’m on earth or I’m in heaven
            Bb             C               F
No, I won’t know if I’m on earth or I’m in heaven
 
[Instrumental]
 
F C Bb
 
[Chorus]
 
F
Let’s go to Vespers
               C
Let’s stay for Compline
            Bb
You take soprano
                  F
And I’ll take the bass line.
              F
Just one more litany
             C
One more prostration
            Bb
One more petition
         F
Of supplication
F
Great clouds of incense
        C
In holy places
               Bb
Bright shining candles
          F
On gilded faces
F
Sing me that tropar
       C
Intone Seven
        Bb             C               F
I won’t know if I’m on earth or I’m in heaven
            Bb             C               F
No, I won’t know if I’m on earth or I’m in heaven
 
[Outro]
 
F                                 C
Let’s go to Vespers (let’s go to Vespers)
               F                            Bb
Let’s stay for Compline (let’s stay for Compline)
           F                         C
You take soprano (you take the soprano)
              F                              Bb
I’ll take the bass line. (I’ll take the bass line)
F                                C
Let’s go to Liturgy (Let’s go to Liturgy)
                 F                               Bb
Wouldn’t that be Divine (Wouldn’t that be just Divine)
F
Sing me that tropar
       C
Intone Seven
        Bb             C               F
I won’t know if I’m on earth or I’m in heaven
            Bb             C               F
No, I won’t know if I’m on earth or I’m in heaven
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