Biography:
Kenneth Cope (b. June 12, 1961, Salt Lake City, Utah) is a composer and performer of religious music geared towards Latter Day Saints. His first album, Heaven — Don't Miss It For The World, was released in February 1988. His twelfth album, All About You, was released in March 2008.
Cope lived in Houston, Texas during his high school years and attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. He has been closely associated with the music of Especially for Youth (EFY), with seven EFY albums having songs he composed.
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Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
These chords are based on the Jenna Jordan Frogley version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FySuVkiit0
Chords are for piano so it may need to be altered to sound right on guitar.
The intro and interludes are embellishments based roughly on this C-G5 progression.
[Intro]
C - G5 - C - G5
[Verse]
G
His hands
GM7/F#
Tools of creation
Em7
Stronger than nations
Bm7
Power without end
C Dsus D
And yet through them we find our truest friend
G
His hands
GM7/F#
Sermons of kindness
Em7
Healing men's blindness
Bm7
Halting years of pain
C Dsus D
Children waiting to be held again
[Chorus]
C G
His hands would serve His whole life through
C G
Showing man what hands might do
Em7 D
Giving, ever giving, endlessly
C
Each day was filled with selflessness
Em7 Em7/D CM7 Am7 CM7
And I'll not rest til I make of my hands what they could be
C D7 G
'Til these hands become like those from Galilee
[Interlude]
C - G5 - C - G5
[Verse]
G
His hands
GM7/F#
Lifting a leper
Em7
Warming a beggar
Bm7
Calling back the dead
C D
Breaking bread, five thousand fed
G
His hands
GM7/F#
Hushing contention
Em7
Pointing to heaven
Bm7
Ever free of sin
C Dsus D
Then bidding man to follow him
[Chorus]
C G
His hands would serve His whole life through
C G
Showing man what hands might do
Am7 CM7 D
Giving, ever giving, endlessly
C G/B
Each day was filled with selflessness
Em7 Em7/D CM7 Am7 CM7
And I'll not rest until I make of my hands what they could be
C D7 G
'Til these hands become like those from Galilee
[Bridge]
Em
His hands
Em/D
Clasped in agony
CM7 Bm7 Am7
As He lay pleading, bleeding in the garden
C
While just moments away
G/B Em
Other hands betray Him
Am7 B7
Out of greed, shameful greed
Em
And then His hands
Em/D
Are trembling
CM7 Bm7 Am7
Straining to carry the beam that they'll be nailed to
C
As He stumbles through the streets
G/B Em Am7
Heading for the hill on which He'd die
B7
He would die
CM7 Em7 Am7 - B7
They take His hands, His mighty hands, those gentle hands
Em7 Em7/D
And then they pierce them, they pierce them
Bm7 CM7
He lets them, because of love
CM7 G
From birth to death was selflessness
Em7 Em7/D CM7 Am7
And clearly now I see Him with His hands
CM7
Calling to me
C G Am7
And though I'm not yet as I would be
C G Am7
He has shown me how I could be
C D G
I will make my hands like those from Galilee
Chords are for piano so it may need to be altered to sound right on guitar.
The intro and interludes are embellishments based roughly on this C-G5 progression.
[Intro]
C - G5 - C - G5
[Verse]
G
His hands
GM7/F#
Tools of creation
Em7
Stronger than nations
Bm7
Power without end
C Dsus D
And yet through them we find our truest friend
G
His hands
GM7/F#
Sermons of kindness
Em7
Healing men's blindness
Bm7
Halting years of pain
C Dsus D
Children waiting to be held again
[Chorus]
C G
His hands would serve His whole life through
C G
Showing man what hands might do
Em7 D
Giving, ever giving, endlessly
C
Each day was filled with selflessness
Em7 Em7/D CM7 Am7 CM7
And I'll not rest til I make of my hands what they could be
C D7 G
'Til these hands become like those from Galilee
[Interlude]
C - G5 - C - G5
[Verse]
G
His hands
GM7/F#
Lifting a leper
Em7
Warming a beggar
Bm7
Calling back the dead
C D
Breaking bread, five thousand fed
G
His hands
GM7/F#
Hushing contention
Em7
Pointing to heaven
Bm7
Ever free of sin
C Dsus D
Then bidding man to follow him
[Chorus]
C G
His hands would serve His whole life through
C G
Showing man what hands might do
Am7 CM7 D
Giving, ever giving, endlessly
C G/B
Each day was filled with selflessness
Em7 Em7/D CM7 Am7 CM7
And I'll not rest until I make of my hands what they could be
C D7 G
'Til these hands become like those from Galilee
[Bridge]
Em
His hands
Em/D
Clasped in agony
CM7 Bm7 Am7
As He lay pleading, bleeding in the garden
C
While just moments away
G/B Em
Other hands betray Him
Am7 B7
Out of greed, shameful greed
Em
And then His hands
Em/D
Are trembling
CM7 Bm7 Am7
Straining to carry the beam that they'll be nailed to
C
As He stumbles through the streets
G/B Em Am7
Heading for the hill on which He'd die
B7
He would die
CM7 Em7 Am7 - B7
They take His hands, His mighty hands, those gentle hands
Em7 Em7/D
And then they pierce them, they pierce them
Bm7 CM7
He lets them, because of love
CM7 G
From birth to death was selflessness
Em7 Em7/D CM7 Am7
And clearly now I see Him with His hands
CM7
Calling to me
C G Am7
And though I'm not yet as I would be
C G Am7
He has shown me how I could be
C D G
I will make my hands like those from Galilee
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