Lifter of My Head — Nashville Number Chart
Key: G major   |   89 BPM   |   4/4
4=C  5=D  1=G
Public domain (CC0). Transcribed from the audio — verify by ear.
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[Intro (easy roadhouse shuffle — clavinet struttin', Hammond warm and low)]
  1 1 1    (Ooh, the lifter of my head)
  1 1 1    (Oh, oh, the lifter of my head)

[Verse 1]
  1 1 1 1    (Lord, how they've multiplied since the mornin' I ran,)
  1 1 1 1 1    (even the boy I bounced on my knee has turned his hand.)
  1 1 1 1 1    (They line the dusty road and they say it loud and mean,)
  1 1 1 1 1    ("there's no help for him in God" — but that ain't the God I've seen.)
  5 1 1 1 1    (So I hung it in the dust, Lord, I hung my heavy head,)
  1 1 5 5 1    (till a word come off the hilltop, soft as mornin' bread.)

[Pre-Chorus]
  4 1 1    (But You — oh, but You —)
  5 4 1    (when the low-down liars crowd around,)
  1 1 1    (You come and find the fallen,)
  1 1 1 1 1    (put Your hand beneath my chin and turn my whole face round.)

[Chorus]
  1 1 1 1 1    (You're the shield all around me, the glory I have found,)
  1 1 1 1 1    (You're the lifter of my head when my head hangs down.)
  4 1 1 4 1    (So I'll rise (rise), I'll rise (rise), on the word that You have said —)
  5 1 4 1 4    (O my God, my glory, You're the lifter of my head.)

[Verse 2]
  1 1 1 1 1    (I cried out with my voice and He heard me where I lay,)
  1 1 1 1    (answered from His holy hill, drove the dark away.)
  1 1 1 1 1    (So I laid me down and slept like a stone in the deep,)
  1 1 5 1 1    (for the Lord was wide awake — He kept the watch I couldn't keep.)
  1 1 1 1 1    (And I woke up still breathin', with my burden turned to bread —)
  1 1 1 1 1    (He sustained me through the night, and He lifted up my head.)

[Pre-Chorus]
  1 1 1    (But You — oh, but You —)
  1 1 1    (let 'em wonder how I sleep so sound,)
  1 1 1    (the One who never slumbers had me,)
  1 1 1 1    (He'll hold me while I lay this weary body down.)

[Chorus]
  1 1 1 1 1    (You're the shield all around me, the glory I have found,)
  1 1 1 1 1    (You're the lifter of my head when my head hangs down.)
  1 5 1 1 1    (So I'll rise (rise), I'll rise (rise), on the word that You have said —)
  1 1 1 5 5    (O my God, my glory, You're the lifter of my head.)

[Bridge]
  1 4 1 1 5    (Let ten thousand come against me, set around on every side,)
  4 1 1 1 1    (I will not be afraid, no — the Lord, He is my light.)
  1 1 1 1 1    (Arise, O Lord, and save me, break the teeth of every lie;)
  1 1 1 1 1    (the hand that keeps me steady is the hand that hung the sky.)
  1 1 1 1 1    ((I will not be afraid) — He lifts the bowed-down low,)
  4 1 1 4 1    ((I will not be afraid) — till the lowly are lifted high.)

[Final Chorus]
  5 1 4 1 4    (You're the shield all around me, the glory I have found,)
  1 1 1 1 1    (You're the lifter of my head when my head hangs down.)
  1 1 1 1 1    (I was face in the dirt, Lord, I was left for dead —)
  1 1 1 1 1    (now my shield and my glory's got me up instead —)
  1 5 1 1 1    (O my God, my glory, You're the lifter of my head.)

[Outro (communal, unhurried, warm harmonies swellin')]
  1 1 1 1 1    (Salvation belongs to the Lord — (belongs to the Lord) —)
  1 1 1 1 1    (and His blessin' rests on His people, on the ones that He's restored.)
  1 1 1 1 1    (So lift your head (lift it up), lift your head (lift it up) —)
  1 1 1    (He's the lifter of your head.)