Requested By Bettye

Scale: E Major
Time Signature: 4/4
Tempo: 100
Suggested Strumming: DU,DU,DU,DU
Transribed By David Matthie
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[INTRO]
Instrumental intro: Drums, electric guitar, and wind. Guitar starts in E.
    A    E    C#m     E     C#m     F#7  E   
Occasionally I show a chord like, G#m7-4, meaning the lyrics lands 4 beats into the G#m7 chord…because the song holds the same chord through long progressions.

[VERSE]
Lead(L):
 Bm7    E7   A                    A-2  E   A
If I’m in trouble (Am, F#m, C#m, A) and need a lawyer.
            E       E-6  C#                    C#m7   F7
When I am sick, so sick and need a doctor.
   Bm7    E      A
Though I am walking life’s highway.

I’m not walking by myself.
        E
I got Jesus watching me;
                      F#m   G#m7
Guiding my footsteps.
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[PRE-CHORUS]
     G#m7-4                     F#m7         G#m7
I’m holding on for my brothers.
                          F#m7                       G#m7
I’m holding on to God’s unchanging hand.
                   F#m7                             F#m
No weapon formed against me shall prosper, cause
  F#m7                                             F#m7-4                   B
I want you to know. C: I want you to know.

[CHORUS]
          B    E               A                 E
God’s got my back. L: Yes, He does. He’s got my back.
         A              B
Oh, ya. Can I say one more thing:

[VERSE]
  A                            A         E    A
There (F#m, E) is some good, Thank You, Jesus.
    A    C#           A
In the worst of us.
                   E       E-7       E-12
And there is some bad, yes it is, in the best of us.
  E7        A         A-7   A-16
But I’m so glad, yes, I am. God is so merciful that,
              E                        F#m      G#m7
He looked beyond my faults and saw my needs.
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[VERSE]
                                F#m7                        F#m                 G#m   G#m7 
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadows of death,
             F#m7     G7   G#m7
I will fear no evil.
              F#m7
Thy rod, thy staff comfort me.
                B7
I want you to know. C: I want you to know.
                  F#m                                          A                                                B
C: I want you to know. L: I want you to know. C: I want you to know.
    B-2          E                A
U: God’s got my back. L: Yes, He does.
                E        E-4      A
U: He’s got my back. L: Yes, He does.
                 E                A
U: God’s got my back. L: Yes, He does.
                E                A
U: He’s got my back. L: Yes, He does.
                 E            A
U: God’s got my back, L: Oh, ya.
                 E
U: He’s got my back.
    A
Uuummmmm (hum)

[BRIDGE]
  A         E  A                 E   
L: When I’m in trouble, God’s U: got my back, oh, ya. C: ooooo.
     A         E                 E                          A
L: When I am sick, God’s got my back. Ya He has, Ummmmm. C: ooooo.
     A             E          A              E
L: When I need a friend, Ya. God’s U: got my back. C#m C: oooooo.
   E                        A
Let’s go to work, Y’all. C: oooooo.

[CHORUS]
  A          E                       
He’s got my back. L: He’s got my back, Oh, Ya.
                E            C#m             A            E
C: He’s got my back. L: He’s got my back. C: He’s got my back.
                                   E              A
L: Yes, He has. He’s got my back. When I’m in trouble.
                A
C: He’s got my back. God has my back.
         E                 C#m
L: He’s got my back. C: He’s got my back. L: Yes, He does.
     A                      B                    E
C: God has got my back. L: When I’m sick on my sickbed.
                                A              F#
C: He’s got my back. L: Ya. C: God has got my back.
      F#             E                    
L: I don’t have to worry. C: He’s got my back.
    A                         A                      E
L: God has got my back. C: I know that God’s got my back.
                                     A                 E
L: Lord, I know that. C: You got my back. He’s got my back.
       E
L: If the doctor turns and walks away from me.
                    A
C: He’s got my back. Lord has got my back.
                 E    A                   A
L: I just keep holdin on. C: He’s got my back. God has got my 

 back.
     E                
L: Holding on to God’s unchanging hand. C: He’s got my back.
    A
L: God has got my back.
         E                                          A
L: He’s got my back. C: He’s got my back. God has got my back.
    A                  E                          A
L: I know He’s got my back. C: He’s got my back. God has got 

My back.
                E    A
L: He’s got my back. //

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