For we are strangers no more

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        Refrain:
            G                  A^m                C    D             C               C⁷    F
                For we are      strangers no  more, but members of one  family;
                                  C            F   E⁷   A^m           D⁷                 G
                                       strangers  no  more, but part of one humanity;
                                  C                C⁷    F       D^m     E⁷                           A^m
                                       strangers no more, we're  neighbors to each other now;
                                  A^b                      C              G⁷                       G⁷         C
                                       strangers no more, we're sisters and we're brothers now. 

        C               G   A^m    C      F            D⁷      G
1. Come, walk with  me, we'll praise the Lord together, 
    C         G    A^m        C            D⁷           G
    as we join  song to song and prayer to prayer.
        F            D^m    E⁷          A^m
    Come, take my  hand, and we will work together
         D^m    G⁷      C                C⁷    F ... G⁷
    by lifting all the burdens we can  share.................................(to Refrain)

        C           G    A^m   C      F              D⁷      G
2. Where diff'ring cul - tures meet we'll serve together. 
        C          G    A^m    C           D⁷          G
    Where hatred   rages we will strive for peace.
        F            D^m    E⁷         A^m
    Come, take my hand, and we will pray together
           D^m        G⁷          C                C⁷     F ... G⁷
    that justice come and strife and warfare cease......................(to Refrain)

        C      G   A^m    C      F            D⁷      G
3. There is a   love  that  binds the world together; 
    C         G    A^m          C          D⁷         G
    a  love that seeks the last, the lost, the least.
       F         D^m     E⁷         A^m
    One day that   love will bring us all together 
         D^m              G⁷           C               C⁷          F ... G⁷
    in Christ from south and north, from west and east...............(to Refrain)

Words:  Kenneth I Morse, 1979
                   Text © 1979 Church of the Brethren General Board
   Tune:  Dianne Huffman Morningstar
                    Music © 1979 Dianne Huffman Morningstar

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