Chorus:
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Daniel, Daniel and the sacred harp,
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Dancing through the clover.
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Daniel, Daniel would you mind,
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If I look it over.

Verse:
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I heard of this famous harp years ago  back in my home town
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But I sure never thought old Daniel be the one to come and bring it around
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Tell me Daniel how the harp came into your posession.
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Are you one of the chosen few who will march in the procession?
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and Daniel said:
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The sacred harp was handed down, from father unto son,
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And me not being related,  I could never be the one.
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So I saved up all my silver, and took it to a man,
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Who said he could deliver the harp, straight into my hand.

       D5                 G5
Three years I waited patiently, 
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'Till he returned with the harp from the sea of Galilee.
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He said there is one more thing I must ask, 
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But not of personal greed.
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But I wouldn't listen I just grabbed the harp,
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And said take what you may need.

      F5                     Bb5                       C5        F5
Now Daniel looked quite satisfied, and the harp it seemed to glow.
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But the price that Daniel had really paid, he did not even know.
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Back to his brother he took his troubled mind.
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And he said dear brother I'm in a bind.
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But the brother would not hear his tale, 
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he said Old Daniel's gonna land in jail.
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So to his father Daniel did run,   
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And he said oh father what have I done.
       Bb5                    A5                    G5
His father said son you've given in, you know you won your harp,
         F5
But you lost in sin.

       D5                           G5
Then Daniel took the harp and went high on the hill,
        C5                               Bb5
And he blew across the meadow like a whippoorwhill.
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He played out his heart just the time to pass,
             C5                       Bb5                      F5
But as he looked to the ground, he noticed no shadow did he cast.

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