Matthews Begats Chords & Tabs
G Dsus Em7 C2
G Dsus Em7 C2
G Dsus
Abraham had Isaac
Em7 C2
Isaac, he had Jacob
G Dsus C2 D
Jacob, he had Judah and his kin
B7
Then Perez and Zerah
Em
Came from Judah's woman, Tamar
B7
Perez, he brought Hezron up
A D
And then came
G Dsus
Aram, then Amminadab
Em7 C2 G
Then Nahshon, who was then the dad of Salmon
Dsus Em7 D
Who with Rahab fathered Boaz
B7 Em
Ruth, she married Boaz who had Obed
Who had Jesse
B7 A D G D G
Jesse, he had David who we know as king
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G Dsus Em7 C2
David, he had Solomon by dead Uriah's wife
G Dsus
Solomon, well you all know him
Em7 C2
He had good old Rehoboam
G Dsus C2 D
Followed by Abijah who had Asa
B7 Em
Asa had Jehoshaphat had Joram had Uzziah
B7 A D
Who had Jotham then Ahaz then Hezekiah
G Dsus Em7
Followed by Manasseh who had Amon
C
Who was a man
G Dsus C D
Who was father of a good boy named Josiah
B7
Who grandfathered Jehoiachin
Em B7
Who caused the Babylonian captivity
A D
Because he was a liar
G Dsus Em7 C2
Then he had Shealtiel, who begat Zerubbabel
G Dsus C2 D
Who had Abiud who had Eliakim
B7 Em
Eliakim had Azor who had Zadok who had Akim
B7 A D
Akim was the father of Eliud then
G Dsus Em7 C2
He had Eleazar who had Matthan who had Jacob
G Dsus
Now, listen very closely
C2 D
I don't want to sing this twice
B7 Em
Jacob was the father of Joseph
C
The husband of Mary
D G
The mother of Christ