Highlands (Song Of Ascent)

Verse1

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O how high would I climb mountains

        C                       G

If the mountains were where You hide

      Em                 D

O how far I'd scale the valleys

        C                G

If You graced the other side

Verse2

       Em                  D

O how long have I chased rivers

           C                   G

From lowly seas to where they rise

            Em               D

Against the rush of grace descending

          C             G

From the source of its supply

Prechorus1

        C        D           Em

In the highlands and the heartache

               G               D

You're neither more or less inclined

         C         D         Em

I would search and stop at nothing

            C

You're just not that hard to find

Chorus

G

  I will praise You on the mountain

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  And I will praise You when the mountain's in my way

            D

You're the summit where my feet are

C                                              G

  So I will praise You in the valleys all the same

                             D

No less God within the shadows

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No less faithful when the night leads me astray

           D

You're the heaven where my heart is

C

  In the highlands and the heartache all the same

Interlude

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Verse3

      Em                D

O how far beneath Your glory

          C                   G

Does Your kindness extend the path

                Em               D

From where Your feet rest on the sunrise

             C                    G

To where You sweep the sinner's past

Verse4

      Em                   D

O how fast would You come running

           C                      G

If just to shadow me through the night

          Em                   D

Trace my steps through all my failure

            C              G

And walk me out the other side

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For who could dare ascend that mountain

               G               D

That valleyed hill called Calvary

            C     D           Em

But for the One I call Good Shepherd

           C

Who like a lamb was slain for me

Bridge

           Em

Whatever I walk through

           D

Wherever I am

                    C

Your Name can move mountains

            G

Wherever I stand

              Em

And if ever I walk through

               D

The valley of death

                       C

I’ll sing through the shadows

            G

My song of ascent

Prechorus3

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From the gravest of all valleys

         G                  D

Come the pastures we call grace

         C        D      Em

A mighty river flowing upwards

       C

From a deep but empty grave