I Will Trade the Old Cross for a Crown

Doyle Lawson

Written by Johnson Oatman Jr. and John M. Henson

Key of G · Chords: I II III IV V

Verse 1

G                    D7                G
I shall not bear the cross through yon city
         C                     G
When the burdens of life I lay down
                    D7         G
When I knock on the portals of heaven
       C             D7          G
I will trade the old cross for a crown

Verse 2

                       D7             G
Though the cross often times has been heavy
        C                       G
And all fortune on me begins to frown
                   D7      G
But how happy I'll be over yonder
       C             D7          G
When I trade the old cross for a crown

Verse 3

                         D7          G
And I will trade the old cross for a crown
         D7         A7         D7
When the burdens of life I lay down
           G                B7             C
When those pearly gates for me shall swing open
G      C             D7          G
I will trade the old cross for a crown

Verse 4

                   D7          G
Every cross that I bear for my Savior
        C                                 G
Will at last one day when He calls me lay down
                       D7         G
And all my sorrow will then be forgotten
                     C             D7          G
And that's when I'll trade the old cross for a crown

Verse 3

                         D7          G
And I will trade the old cross for a crown
         D7         A7         D7
When the burdens of life I lay down
           G                B7             C
When those pearly gates for me shall swing open
G      C             D7          G
I will trade the old cross for a crown