Break Up the Fallow Ground

Words by Dean Close and Music by Debbie Stacy

© 1994 HIM Music

Key: C

Chorus:

G⁷                    F^m      G^m/F  C

Break up your soul’s fallow ground

G⁷               F^m       G^m/F        C

Soften your heart’s hardened soil

                           E^m  G^m            A⁷

God’s righteous rain will bring blessing

        D^m                                   G⁷

If in faith in your field you will toil

                         F^m     G^m/F   C

Break up your soul’s fallow ground

                 F^m               C

Soften the soil of your hearts

              E^m   G^m       A⁷

You will soon have a harvest

     D^m         D^m/G  C/G G⁷   C

Of holiness when  the   rain starts

Verse I:

          F^m                                        C

If the field of your faith has grown fallow

F^m                                   C

Hardened by seasons of sin

         B^b                F                   C

If the soil of your heart won’t allow

       E^b                            G

The water of life to flow in

          B^b                     F

If the seeds of God’s Word just gets stolen

     B^b                                     C

Before its growth in your begins

               F                 G             A^b

Put your hand to the plow of repentance

        A^b/F                                       G⁷

And break up your ground once again

Verse II: 

                          F^m           C

God wants your life to be fruitful

      F^m                                     C

He wants His grace in you to grow

       B^b              F                        C

He wants your friends and your family

          E^b                                     G

To be fed with the fruit of your soul

           B^b                         F

God’s able to give you a harvest

               B^b                         C

That will meet one’s every need

       F                     G                                  A^b

But first you must break up your heart’s soil

        A^b/F                              G⁷

And fill it with God’s fertile soil