Title:    Free
Artist:   Steven Curtis Chapman
Album:    Signs of Life
Author:   Steven Curtis Chapman
Copyright 1996 Sparrow Song / Peach Hill Songs / BMI
Tabbed by Casey Lee <schmoozemeter@hotmail.com>


Capo on 1st fret (all chords relative to capo)


Intro:
Bm - G - D - A (x2)


Verse 1:
    Bm                              G
The sun was beating down inside the walls of stone and razor wire
D                             A
As we made our way across the prison yard
  Bm                             G
I felt my heart begin to race as we drew nearer to the place
D                                    A
Where they say that death is waiting in the dark
    Em                            Bm
The slamming doors of iron echoed through the halls
Em                                  F#
Where despair holds life within its cruel claws
    Bm                          G
But then I met a man whose face seemed so strangely out of place
  D                                 A
A blindng light of hope was shining in his eyes
    Bm                              G
And with repentance in his voice he told me of his trajic choice
     D                                   A
That led him to this place where he must pay the price
    Em                                 Bm
But then his voice grew strong as he began to tell
 Em                               F#
About the one he said had rescued him from hell, he said


Chorus:
    G     A        Bm
I'm free, yeah, oh I have been forgiven
      G              A                 Bm
God's love has taken off my chains and given me these wings
        G     A             Bm
And I'm free, yeah, and the freedom I've been given
   G                                 A
Is something that not even death can take away from me
       Bm        G
Because  I'm free

             D   A
Jesus set me free


Verse 2 (same as verse 1):
We said a prayer and said goodbye and tears began to fill my eyes
As I stepped back out into the blinding sun
And even as I drove away I found that I could not escape
The way he spoke of what the grace of God had done
I thought about how sin had sentenced us to die
And how God gave His only Son so you and I could say


Chorus:
    G     A        Bm
I'm free, yeah, oh I have been forgiven
      G              A                 Bm
God's love has taken off my chains and given me these wings
        G     A             Bm
And I'm free, yeah, and the freedom I've been given
   G                                 A
Is something that not even death can take away from me
            D
Because I'm free


Bridge:
    F#sus          F#                F#sus          F#
And if the Son has set you free, oh, if the Son has set you free
     D
Then you are free indeed, oh, you are really free
F#sus          F#                F#sus          F#
If the Son has set you free, oh, if the Son has set you free
     G                            A
Then you are free, really, really free


Chorus:
          G     A         Bm
Oh, we're free, yeah, oh, we have been forgiven
      G                A               Bm
God's grace has broken every chain and given us these wings
          G     A                   Bm
And we're free, yeah, yeah, and the freedom we've been given
   G                                 A
Is something that not even death can take from you and me
              G     A         Bm
Because we're free, yeah, the freedom we've been given
   G                                 A
Is something that not even death can take from you and me
              D               G
Because we're free, oh, we're free
       D            G
We are free, we are free
                   D
The Son has set us free

If the Son has set you free, you are free indeed
G
If the Son has set you free, you are free indeed
(play 4x)


Outro:
D - G (x2)

D
If the Son has set you free, you are free indeed
G
If the Son has set you free, you are free indeed
(play 4x)

D
If the Son has set you free, you are free indeed
You are free indeed, you are free indeed
Free indeed, free indeed, free indeed