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From: Don Alich, dalich@arkons.lmsc.lockheed.com 
Written and Performed: Don Francisco
John 9


(NOTE: THERE ARE FOUR DIFFERENT TYPES OF VERSES.  THE NUMBER OF INDENTS
INDICATE WHICH TUNE ARE FOR WHICH)


Since I Met Him

         D                        A
Now it's hard to describe what my life used to be
                                     D
To someone who's always been able to see.
           D                 A
You know I wasn't unhappy or bitter that way,
                                              D
But everything's changed since I met Him that day.

I was down at the corner just passing the time,
Sitting in the sunlight and feeling it shine,
When the sound of a crowd began to grow in my ear,
So I waited and I listened as I heard them draw near.

           G
    Then a man stepped up to me and He spat on the ground.
               A
    He put the mud on my eyes and then He smeared it around.
            G
    Sent me off to Siloam to wash off the clay,
          A                                  D
    And I opened my eyes and I looked at the day.

              G                   D              G                     D
        And I have no idea how He did it, I just know what happened to
me.
        G                  D             A                     D  D G A
D
        Yesterday I was in darkness, but since I met Him I can see.

When the Pharisees heard it they put me on trial,
Even called in my parents and grilled them awhile,
And when, at the end, I defended the man,
Who had opened my eyes, the troubles began.

    I said "Ever since the beginning of time
    No one's opened the eyes of someone born blind.
    This man's sent from God, it just can't be denied";
    And they cursed me and grabbed me and threw me outside.

        I really don't know how He found me. I just know He was talking
to me.
        It was easy to tell by the sound of His voice He was the reason
I see.

    And as soon as He spoke to me I couldn't hide
    The emotion that welled up from deep down inside
    And combined in the dreams that He made to come true,
    To kneel there and worship was all I could do

        And I called Him my Lord and Messiah
        For everything He'd done for me.
        Yesterday I was in darkness,
        But since I met Him I can see.

        And I call Him my Lord and my savior
        For everything He's done for me.
        Yesterday I was in darkness,
                    C           C    F  C
                But since I met Him,
                A           A   Asus  A
                Since I met Him,
                G           A         D
                Since I met Him I can see.

                C                D   F C
                Since I met Him, Messiah
                A                A   Asus A
                Since I met Him, Messiah
                G           A         D
                Since I met Him I can see