The Lost Soul by The Handsome Family
Transcribed by MericanSoil
Standard Tuning
Listen to recording for appropriate Call-and-Response Vocals
Intro: Am
Am
What an awful day
When the judgment comes
And the sinners hear
E
Their eternal doom
Am
At the sad decree
They’ll depart fore’
Dm E7
Into endless woe
Am E G Am (Rest)
And gloom, endless woe and gloom
Refrain:
Am
I’m paying now
Am
The penalty
Am
That the unredeemed
E
Must ever pay
Am
Though for help I cry
Am
It is all in vain
Dm E7
For alas I’m doomed
Am E G Am
Fore’, I’m doomed fore’
Am
If I could recall
Am
All the years now gone
Am
For my saviors cause
E
I would spend each one
Am
But they never again
Am
Can to me return
Dm E7
And the task is left
Am E G Am
Undone, its left undone
Refrain:
Am
I’m paying now
Am
The penalty
Am
That the unredeemed
E
Must ever pay
Am
Though for help I cry
Am
It is all in vain
Dm E7
For alas I’m doomed
Am E G Am
Fore’, I’m doomed fore’
Am
Oh I realize
Am
But alas too late
Am
What a dark mistake
E
All my life has been
Am
I refused his love
Am
With a various heart
Dm E7
And I must pay the price
Am E G Am
Of sin, the price of sin
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Final Refrain:
Am
I’m paying now
Am
The penalty
Am
That the unredeemed
E
Must ever pay
Am
Though for help I cry
Am
It is all in vain
Dm E7
For alas I’m doomed
Am E G Am
Fore’, I’m doomed fore’
