Ben Harper - Blessed To Be A Witness guitar tab

Blessed To Be A Witness – Ben Harper

On the album (diamonds on the inside) Ben Harper plays this song on a Thiele Tongue drum

box marimba sounding thing).

Here is the guitar arrangement for the song. I would probably pluck or finger-pick the

to keep the rhythm of the tongue drums.

btw - if you were wandering what corcovado is: it is the mountain in rio de janerio that

massive statue of Jesus Christ is on.

Capo on 2nd fret

Verse One

F C

Corcovado parted the sky

G Am

And through the darkness on us he shined

F C

Crucified in stone

G Am

Still his blood is my own

F C

Glory behold all my eyes

G

Have seen, have seen

Chorus

F Am

I am blessed, I am blessed (x2)

G F C

I am blessed to be a witness

This is the riff they do on the tongue bell drums at the end of the chorus (play during

bar in which they play C)

e|------------------------------------------------|

B|------------------------------------------------|

G|------0---------------0---2---------------------|

D|-2--2--0-3------(2)--2---0-3--------------------|

A|--3-----(3)-------3-----------------------------|

E|------------------------------------------------|

The chords are the same throughout the rest of the song, in the instrumental part just

the verse’s chord progression.

Heres the rest of the lyrics….

Some have flown away

And can't be with us here today

Like the hills of my home

Some have crumbled and now are gone

Gather around for today

Won't come again

Won't come again

I am blessed to be a witness

So much sorrow and pain

But still I will not live in vain

Like a question never asked

Is wisdom wasted on the past

Only by the grace of God

Go I

Go I

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