Shake This House

Words and Music by Jim E. Davis

© 1992 HIM Music

Key: B^b

Chorus:

B^b

Shake this house, shake this house

                                                                C⁷

Let the power of the Holy Ghost come down

       E^b                       E^b/F

We need a great outpouring

B^b                           G⁷

Shower down your glory

C^m7         D^m7  E^bm7 D^m7 C^m7   F⁷   B^b

Come oh Holy Spir  -  it   shake this house

Verse I:

        B^bm                  B^bm/A^b

The disciples of the Lord

          B^bm/G^b

Were all in one accord

        G^b/E^b                                    B^bm

And praise is what they came to do (it’s what they came to do)

            B^bm            B^bm/A^b

And it wasn’t very long

             B^bm/G^b

‘Til the power was so strong

        G^b/E^b                   D^b/E^b    F²

The air was filled with His perfume

              F/D                        B^b/G

But the walls could not contain

        F/D                 B^b/G

The power of their praise

                 E^b/C                                   F⁴                 F

When the presence of the Holy One filled up the room

Verse II:

           B^bm                 B^bm/A^b

Apprehended on the street

          B^bm/G^b

They bound their hands and feet

         G^b/E^b                               B^bm

And threw them on the prison floor (they threw them on the floor)

              B^bm                      B^bm/A^b

But the one thing they forgot

         B^bm/G^b

That praise cannot be stopped

      G^b/E^b             D^b/E^b                 F²

As Paul and Silas worshipped the Lord

              F/D                B^b/G

In them middle of the night

         F/D                     B^b/G

That jailhouse came alive

            E^b/C                                    F⁴                F

As the shaking of the Holy Ghost opened the doors

Verse III:

    B^bm            B^bm/A^b

If only two or three

     B^bm/G^b

Together would agree

         G^b/E^b                                 B^bm

That we are here to praise His name (praise His name)

              B^bm               B^bm/A^b

We can have the confidence

         B^bm/G^b

That He is in our midst

        G^b/E^b               D^b/E^b   F²

And every promise we can claim

      F/D                   B^b/G

So shout the battle cry

       F/D                 B^b/G

Lift holy hands up high

               E^b/C                                     F⁴              F

And the gates of hell will not prevail inside this place