I Dream Of Jesus Chords

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[Verse 1]
[Em]It was d[C]uring my 2nd s[Em]enior year
when Mom found Jesus [C]Christ. [Em]His
spirit was trapped in[C]side an old
[Em]manischevitz bottle [C]that Mom picked
out of [Em]the d[C]umpster behind the 7[Em]-11. Mom
brought the bottle inside and
[C]sat it down [Em]on top of the TV. Then she
[C]told all of us kids [Em]to gather
round, and [C]then she [Em]explained how Jesus lived in the [C]bottle,
and how,
[Em]if she wanted to,
she could call [C]him out to [Em]do her bidding. Sis said [C]it
reminded her of an old [Em]TV sh[C]ow,
and Mom slapped her and called [Em]her a
heretic. [C]I didn't say [Em]anything,
cause I just still remember the [C]time
outside [Em]the Safeway, when it took 4 security
guards to hold Mom [C]down.[G]

[Verse 2]
Jesus loves me, yes I [Em]know
For the Bible tells [C]me so
When I'm weak he makes me strong
That's why I sing [G]this song
If I die before I wake
[Em]Pray to him my soul don't take[C]
Jesus loves me,
yes I know
[Em]

[Verse 3]
It wasn't long be[C]fore people from
all over [Em]the world s[C]tarted coming to
our house to see the [Em]bottle. At [C]first
I thought [Em]that this would make me
more pop[C]ular at school. Instead it
[Em]seemed to have the opposite [C]result.
Kids would [Em]stop [C]and point at me in [Em]the hallway
and say, "There's the [C]boy
whose mother keep[Em]s our savior cooped
up in that [C]tiny little [Em]bottle." And
then every[C]body star[Em]ted calling me 'Bottle
[C]boy'. And that really hur[Em]t. It
was also around [C]this time [Em]that Mom began
to attract some really [C]weird
follow[Em]ers. Like that guy [C]who never
[Em]used deodorant and spoke only in
[C]riddles. [Em]And that woman [C]who collected
[Em]19th century hand [C]made [G]Amish
swimwear.

[Verse 4]
Jesus loves me, yes [Em]I know
For the Bible tells me so
[C]When I'm weak he makes me strong
That's why I sing [G]this song
If I die before I wake
[Em]Pray to him my soul don'[C]t take
Jesus loves me, yes I know
[Bb]Mommy

[Verse 5]
she loved Jesus,
[F]but not like others did
For she had a [Bb]special bottle in
which our savior lived
[Bb]Mommy she loved Jesus,
[F]but not like others did
For she [G#]could unleash His vengeance
by unfastening [Em]the lid

[Verse 6]
As the year went on, things went [C]from bad to [Em]worse,
and I realized that
if there wasn't a big change pretty soon,
[Am]I'd never [Em]be able to get a
date for [C]the prom. I couldn't go the
[Em]year before because Mom belonged
to a church that considered dancing
[C]a one way [Em]ticket to Hell. But
that's a whole nother [C]story. [Em]Anywa[C]y,
by this point Mom had [Em]appeared on
the Richard Bey Show,
A.M. Philadelphia [Am]and [C]Geraldo, so there was[Em]
no use in me chan[C]ging schools,
since [Em]everybody knew who my Mom was.
Also [Am]we had to spend all the m[Em]oney
from Mom's person[Am]al appearances [Em]to
hire a bodyguard, since [Am]by t[C]his point
we [Em]were getting about [C]400 death
threats [G]a day.

[Verse 7]
[G]Jesus loves me, yes I know
[Em]For the Bible tells [C]me so
When I'm weak he makes me strong
That's why I sing [G]this song
If I die before I wake
[Em]Pray to him my soul don'[C]t take
Jesus loves me, yes I [Em]know

[Verse 8]
[G]Then one night, I just could[Em]n't stand
[C]it any more. While everyone [Em]else
was sleep[G]ing I crept downstair[Em]s.
[C]Slowly I went up [Em]to the bottle and
began [G]to unfasten the lid. [Em]At fi[C]rst,
nothing happened. [Em]But then the r[G]oom
filled with a thick [Em]white [C]smoke. I was
glad my sister had [Em]taken the
bat[G]teries out of the smoke detector to
[Em]put into [C]her Walkman. When the
smoke [Em]cleared, I [G]found myself face to face with the son [Em]of G[C]od,
who was
much shorter than I had expec[Em]ted.
[G]He told me that since I'd freed Him,
[Em]He'd grant me on[C]e wish. And that's how
[Em]I got to[C] go to the pro[G]m with
Geena Davis. [Em]But you prob[C]ably already
read about that [G]in People.

[Verse 9]
Jesus loves me, yes [G]I know
[Em]For the Bible tells me s[C]o
When I'm weak he makes me strong
That's why I sing [G]this song
If I die before I wake
[Em]Pray to him my soul don't take
[C]Jesus loves me, yes I know

[Verse 10]
[Bb]Mommy she loved Jesus,
[F]but not like others did
For she had a [Bb]special bottle in
which our savior lived
[Bb]Mommy she loved Jesus,
[F]but not like others did
For she [G#]could unleash His vengeance
by unfastening the lid
[Bb]Mommy she loved Jesus,
[F]but not like others did
For she had [Bb]a special bottle
in which our savior lived
[Bb]Mommy she loved Jesus,
[F]but not like others did
For she could un[G#]leash His vengeance
by unfastening the lid
[Em][C][Em]