Fill the Whole Earth (Amen and Amen) — Nashville Number Chart Key: F major | 96 BPM | 4/4 5=C 6m=Dm 1=F 2m=Gm 4=Bb Public domain (CC0). Transcribed from the audio — verify by ear. ================================================== [Intro (a cappella, dead-dry, leader-and-choir call-and-response, hard claps and driving tambourine, no melody instruments yet, funky)] 1 4 (Amen! (Amen!)) 5 1 (And Amen! (Amen!)) 6m 4 5 1 (Blessed be His name — (blessed be His name!)) 2m 5 1 4 1 (now clap your hands and get up on your feet —) 4 5 1 ((fill it up, fill it up!)) [Verse 1 (funky gospel groove drops in, deep funk bass, chicken-pickin' rhythm electric, greasy gospel organ, banjo and mandolin, claps drivin', lone lead, choir answering)] 1 4 5 (We have seen the terrible beauty,) 1 6m 4 5 (we have felt the fire He gave, (we felt it!)) 1 2m 5 1 4 (we ran clean out of words at the glory — now we can't keep it in the cave;) 1 4 5 1 1 ('cause a light like this ain't made for hidin', a fire like this won't stay,) 4 5 1 6m 4 (so we're up off the floor and out the door, and we're carryin' it today! (carry it today!)) [Pre-Chorus (build, groove tightens, claps double, fiddle, organ climbs, choir stacks thick, pleading up to God)] 5 1 2m 5 1 (So we lift it like a prayer and we send it like a flame — (send it out, send it out!)) 4 1 4 5 1 (past the mountain, past the river, past the reach of every name;) 1 4 5 1 6m (not a corner left in shadow, not a nation left unknown —) 4 5 1 2m 5 (Lord, we're beggin' You to pour it out till it rolls over all!) [Chorus (full funk-gospel slams the deep pocket, big male and female gospel choir, dirty electric on the backbeat, organ wailin', leader-and-choir call-and-response, driving)] 1 4 1 4 5 (Fill the whole earth with Your glory! (fill it up, fill it up!)) 1 1 4 5 1 (Blessed be His glorious name, and the people all said Amen! (Amen!)) 6m 4 5 1 2m (Every hill, every nation, every shore, every soul — (go carry it, go carry it!)) 5 1 4 1 4 (We won't sit down till the whole world's on its feet —) 5 1 1 (so it's Amen (Amen!), Amen —) 4 5 1 (fill the whole earth with Your glory!) [Verse 2 (lean funk bass, chicken-pickin' guitar, organ stabs, claps, choir quick answers, leader preachin' hot, funkiest yet)] 6m 4 5 1 2m (This ain't a song to sing and set down — it's a fire we've got to carry; (carry it!)) 5 1 4 1 4 (put it in your hands and in your feet, and don't you dare be scared; (carry it!)) 5 1 1 4 5 (tell it on the ferry and the freeway, tell it door to door,) 1 6m 4 5 1 (till there ain't a soul on all the earth that never heard before. (never before!)) [Pre-Chorus 2 (build higher, choir thicker, organ and fiddle push, the plea turns into a march)] 2m 5 1 4 1 (We ain't marchin' 'cause we're mighty — we're marchin' 'cause He's near; (He's near!)) 4 5 1 1 4 (He put the thunder in our hands, so we're rollin' it out of here;) 5 1 6m 4 5 (till the last and farthest island hears the story and believes —) 1 2m 5 1 4 (Lord, we throw our whole heart open and we plead! (and we plead!)) [Chorus (choir at full march)] 1 4 5 1 1 (Fill the whole earth with Your glory! (fill it up, fill it up!)) 4 5 1 6m 4 (Blessed be His glorious name, and the people all said Amen! (Amen!)) 5 1 2m 5 1 (Every hill, every nation, every shore, every soul — (go carry it, go carry it!)) 4 1 4 5 1 (We won't sit down till the whole world's on its feet —) 1 4 5 (so it's Amen (Amen!) Amen —) 1 6m 4 (fill the whole earth with Your glory!) [Bridge (raw funk breakdown, bass and chicken-pickin' guitar and tambourine and stomp and greasy organ only, leader calls each line HOT, choir answers HARD on one tag, claps building a wall, driving)] 5 1 2m 5 1 (Go and tell it! — Go and tell it! (fill the earth!)) 4 1 4 5 1 (Go and carry it! — To the east and the west!) 1 4 5 1 6m (To the least and the lost! — We are beggin' You, God!) 4 5 1 2m 5 (And we're goin' ourselves! — To the ends of the earth, (we will not stop!)) [Turn (the whole wide world)] 1 4 1 (So the whole wide world can holler) 4 5 1 (what the mountain already tells — Glory!) [Final Chorus (everything back in and MAXED, no key change, whole gospel choir full roar, dirtiest funk guitar, organ screaming, one unified voice)] 1 4 5 1 6m (Fill the whole earth with Your glory! (fill it up, fill it up!)) 4 5 1 2m (Blessed be His glorious name, and the people all said) 5 1 (Amen! (Amen!)) [Final Chorus (the people all said)] 4 1 4 5 1 (Every hill, every nation, every shore, every soul — (go carry it, go carry it!)) 1 4 5 1 6m (We won't sit down till the whole world's on its feet —) 4 5 1 2m 5 (so it's Amen — fill the whole earth with Your glory!) [Tag (cover the earth)] 1 4 1 4 5 (Cover the earth, cover the earth — (fill the whole earth with Your glory)) 1 1 4 5 1 (fill it up with the weight of who You are —) 6m 4 5 1 ((blessed be His glorious name), forever and again —) [Amen chain (trading the two words)] 2m 5 (Amen (Amen!),) 1 4 (Amen! (Amen)) 1 4 (Amen! (Amen!)) 5 1 (Amen! (Amen!)) 1 4 (Amen! (Amen!)) 5 1 (Amen! (Amen!)) [Outro (band drops out one by one, back to the bare a cappella claps and stomps and tambourine, trading the two words soft then huge then soft, one last gospel organ swell decays into silence)] 6m 4 5 1 (Blessed be His glorious name — (fill the whole earth!)) 2m 5 1 4 (let the whole wide earth be filled with His glory.) [Amen (a cappella, the last word)] 1 4 (Amen... and Amen.)