INTRO: C(add 9) C(9) F5 C(add 9) F5 G5 A5 F5 I met God's Will on a Halloween night C5 G5 He was dressed as a bag of leaves A5 F5 G5 It hid the braces on his legs at first A5 F5 His smile was as bright as the August sun C5 G5 A5 C5 When he looked at me F5 C5 As he struggled down the driveway, it almost G5 Made me hurt F5 C5 Will don't walk too good F5 C5 Will don't talk too good F5 C5 He won't do the things that the other kids do, G5 In our neighborhood [CHORUS] C5 F5 I've been searchin', wonderin', thinking? C5 F5 Lost and lookin' all my life C5 A5 I've been wounded, jaded, loved and hated F5 G5 I've wrestled wrong and right F5 C5 He was a boy without a father A5 F5 And his mother's miracle A5 G5 I've been readin', writin', prayin', fightin' C5 F5 I guess I would be still D5 G5 Yeah, that was until F5 C5 F5 G5 I knew God's Will A5 F5 Will's mom had to work two jobs C5 G5 We'd watch him when she had to work late A5 F5 And we'd all laugh like I hadn't laughed G5 Since I don't know when A5 F5 Hey Jude was his favorite song C5 G5 A5 C5 At dinner he'd ask to pray F5 C5 G5 And then he'd pray for everybody in the world but him [REPEAT CHORUS] [BRIDGE] F5 Before they moved to California C5 His mother said, they didn't think he'd live A5 C5 And she said each day that I have him , F5 well it's just another gift F5 A5 And I never got to tell her, that the boy G5 F5 Showed me the truth D5 In crayon red, on notebook paper, he'd written B5 flat G5 Me and God love you C5 F5 I've been searchin', prayin', wounded, jaded C5 F5 I guess I would be still D5 G5 Yeah that was until... A5 F5 I met God's Will on a Halloween night C5 G5 C5 He was dressed as a bag of leaves CODA and SOLO: Am F7M