Tom: G
G Em
If you had a vineyard on a fruitful hill
C G D
And you fenced it and cleared it of all stones until
G Em
You planted it with the choicest of vine
C
And you even built a tower and a press to make wine
G
And you looked that it would bring forth sweet grapes
D
And it gave only wild grapes
G
What would you say Jerusalem and Judah
Em C
You be the judges I pray
G
Between me and my vineyard
D
This is what God says
G Em
What more could I have done in it
C
That I did not do in it
G
Why when I ask it for sweetness
D
It brings only bitterness
G Em
For the vineyard of the lord of hosts
C
Is the house of Israel
And the men of Judah
G D
His pleasant plant
G Em
And he looks for justice but beholds oppression
C
And he hopes for equality but hears a cry
G
Jerusalem and Judah
D
This is God's reply
G
Sadness will come
Em
To those who build house to house
C
And lay field to field 'til there's room
G
For none but you to dwell in the land
D
Oh, in the land
G
And sadness will come to those who call evil good
Em
And good evil, who present darkness as light
C
And light as darkness, who present as sweetness
G D
Only the things which are bitterness
G Em
For the vineyard of the lord of hosts
C
Is the house of Israel
G
And the men of Judah his pleasant plant
D G
Oh, oh his pleasant plant
Em
Oh, that my eyes were a fountain of tears
C
That I might weep for my poor people
G D
(for my poor people)
G Em
For every boot stamped with fierceness
C
For every cloak rolled in blood
G
Jerusalem and Judah
D
I'd cry if I could
G Em
Oh, that my eyes were a fountain of tears
C G D
That I might weep for my poor people
G Em
Oh, that my eyes were a fountain of tears
C G D G
That I might weep for my poor people
