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GUITAR CHORDS
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Wedding Song (There is Love)

Vocals: Noel Paul Stookey
"Into every songwriter's life comes a song,
the source of which cannot be explained by personal experience..."
- Noel Paul Stookey

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Tuning is dropped three half-tones

(C# F# B E G# C#)

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Noel plays the 12-string guitar open with no capo.

These G chords will match the recorded pitch even though

the

sheet music shows it in the key of E because the guitar

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is tuned down one-and-one-half notes.

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INTRO
These chords are not intended to be strummed. Instead, Noel uses an arpeggio picking pattern to achieve
an overlapping downscale run, starting on the second string third fret and ending on the third string
open. The phrase is repeated at the end of each verse and at the end of the bridge.

He is now to be among you

At the calling of your hearts

C+d

Rest assured this troubador

Is acting on His part.

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The union of your spirits, here,

C+d G

Has caused Him to re-main

Em G

For when-ever two or more of you

Are gathered in His name

C+d (G A7 - C+d - G) or INTRO phrase

There is Love. There is Love.

G D

A man shall leave his mother

C+d G

And a woman leave her home,

Em G

And they shall travel on to where

The two shall be as one.

G D

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As it was in the be-ginning

C+d G

Is now and til the end

Em G

Woman draws her life from man

And gives it back again.

C+d (G A7 - C+d - G) or INTRO phrase

And there is Love. There is Love.

C Em Am

Well then what's to be the reason

D G

For be-coming man and wife?

C Em Am

Is it Love that brings you here

D G

Or Love that brings you life?

G D

For if loving is the answer,

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C+d G

Then who's the giving for?

Em G

Do you believe in something

That you've never seen before?

C+d (G A7 - C+d - G) or INTRO phrase

Oh there's Love, there is Love.

Oh the marriage of your spirits here

C+d G

Has caused Him to re-main

Em G

For when-ever two or more of you

Are gathered in His name

C+d

There is Love.

(G A7 - C+d - G) or INTRO phrase

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There is Love.

"Wedding Song (There Is Love)" was released in 1971 as a single from Noel Paul Stookey's first solo
album, "Paul and" by Warner Brothers, and later reissued by Neworld Records.

Noel plays 12-string guitar on this song, though it can also be performed on piano & organ. The sheet
music is available from Warner Brothers, giving vocal, guitar, and piano & organ parts.

© 1971 Public Domain Foundation, Inc (ASCAP)

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