Chords for few more songs and video for Tamil Song - Ellaavatrilum Neer

I just added a video showing chord arrangements for the Tamil worship song, "Ellaavatrilum Neer Maelaanavar". Here is the video:

Finger positions for few relatively uncommon chords involved in this song may appear to be difficult. In the video, I have attempted to give some practical suggestions that may be helpful in conveniently changing the finger positions for these uncommon chords during the song. As I started writing chords for this song, I realized that this song can be a nice example to demonstrate the utility of  5 note chords (FmM9 and FmM7+13) and even a 6 note chord (FmM9+13/G) in guitars. Such chords may be relatively more difficult to be positioned for common use in guitars as we more often use just four fingers on the fret board. In keyboards, the notes of such chords can be split and positioned using two hands. This is one of the few songs in which even guitarists can enjoy using 5 note and 6 note chords with little additional practice.

 

For quick reference, I am also giving some of the chord diagrams here in this post. The pdf file with the written chords and chord diagrams can be downloaded from Chords - Tamil Christian songs page at the top of this blog.

Along with this update, in the pdf file, I have also added chords for common FMPB songs - Hallelujah Kartharaiyae and Irul soozhum kaalam. 

 

 

  

 

Web resources available for Christian Musicians

Over the past few years, it is great to see a considerable increase in  available free web resources for Christian musicians. In this post, I am giving a list of  websites/blog pages with free resources for Christian musicians that I have found through Bing/Google searches. Most of these pages are maintained by like minded Christians with a vision to facilitate free web resources for young/young at heart Christian musicians/worship leaders. These resources not only expand the database of available worship songs with chord arrangements but also provide us helpful insights into various styles of chord arrangements by various musicians. The chord arrangements for a given song by different musicians are generally different. The more we listen/practice different styles, the more effective we can be during worship sessions.

Psalms 150: 6 says:

Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord; Praise ye the Lord

and Psalms 33:3 says:

Sing unto Him a new song; Play skillfully with a loud noise

May all these resources continually facilitate more meaningful worship  of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ with the best of our talents. All said and done, the best expression of music is realized only when we utilize it in glorifying our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

The list given here is not comprehensive. Please feel free to give links of similar websites that you may find in the comments section.
 

Churchspot.com:

This is a great website constantly updated with chord arrangements written over lyrics of Tamil and English songs. This website already has chord arrangements for a lot of Tamil and English Christian songs commonly sung in churches. The website also features a unique convenient feature to select songs for particular programs  and print the songs along with chords in the required key.
 

Link: http://churchspot.com/

Aatmik-sandesh.com:

This web page is a big resource of chord arrangements for Hindi Christian songs. This page also has mp3 links for some songs to listen and learn the tunes.

Link: http://www.aatmik-sandesh.com/as/downloads/guitarchords/index.html

Sam Mugunthan's Youtube Page:

This page involves videos featuring simple instructions with guitar chord arrangements for common Tamil Christian songs. This can be very helpful for new guitarists. Here is the link:

Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/thillalangadi69/videos?view=0&flow=grid

Tamil Gospel Lessons:

This is an upcoming webpage that can be very useful and inspiring for young keyboard/ players. The instructor is highly talented and has some great videos demonstrating how simple old and new worship songs can be played with beautiful expression utilizing advanced music workstations.

Link: http://tamilgospellessons.com/

Tamil Song Chords:

This blog page has been started by its author to provide chord arrangements over transliterated lyrics of Tamil Christian songs for the benefit of Christians who may not be able to read Tamil fluently. This is a thoughtful presentation to address a growing need.

Link: http://vadadas.blogspot.com/2012/04/reason-for-this-blog.html

Tamil Christian Songs Facebook page:

This Facebook group is a social page where any musician can put forward a request or submit a song with chords. This is a great group resource

Link: http://www.facebook.com/LFvYM?sk=app_2309869772

Gospelguitar.com:

This webpage is currently under re-construction. This is one of the first few pages started years back to provide with useful resources for Christian musicians.
 

Link: http://www.gospelguitar.com/tamilsongswithchords.html

Christian Tamil Song Chords:

This blog page has been started by its author to provide chords for Tamil Christian songs. This page currently has chords over transliterated words. 

Link: http://thomsonjabakumar.blogspot.com/

Christian Songs (Lyrics and Chords):

This blog page has lyrics and chord arrangements for Hindi and English worship songs.

Link: http://cherrydove.blogspot.com/

Telugu Christian Songs Chords:

This blog page is a useful resource  with chords over lyrics for primarily Telugu Christian songs. This page also has chords for some English and Hindi songs. 

 

Link: http://teluguchristiansongchords.blogspot.com/

Chords for Telugu Christian Songs:

This blog page is again a useful resource with chords over lyrics for primarily Telugu Christian songs. The author of this page has also given links where chords for songs can be transposed.
 

Link: http://beawarriorforjesus.blogspot.com/

Telugu Christian Guitar:

This page has chords for Telugu and English Christian songs.  It also features some videos showing how to play some of these songs.

Link: http://teluguchristianguitar.blogspot.com/

Telugu Christian Guitar Chords:

This blog page has a good collection of chords for Telugu and English Christian songs.

Link: http://teluguchristianguitarchords.wordpress.com/

Update: Corrections and chords for few more Tamil songs

 

It has been a while since I updated the blog page. I would like to point out a minor correction in couple of my previous videos. In the video for the song, "En Uyiraana Yesu", the chord that I introduce at 3m:31s is actually called either Esus4 (or A2) and not Asus4. Please note this correction. I have also updated the pdf file with this information. Similarly, Esus4 has again been referred as Asus4 in Thaen Inimayilum video at 0m.44s. Please note this correction. I think that it all started with a minor typo and the fact that the same chord may also be called as A2 if the root note is A. Sorry about this confusion.

 I have added chords for few more songs in the Tamil Christian Songs.pdf file (Kirubaiyaal nilai nirkirom, Maghizhvom maghizhvom, Uyirinum Maelaanadhu, Umdhan Naamathaal and Pottri Thudhipom). 

I have also added a new video that shows how the chords for the song Uyirinum Maelaanadhu can be played.  For quick reference, I am also giving some of the chord diagrams here below the video. The pdf file with the written chords and chord diagrams can be downloaded from Tamil Christian Songs tab page at the top of this blog page.

  

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

Tech and its application in worship music

Over the past weeks, I could update the files with chords for some more songs (Dhevanae Naan Umadhandayil, Aradhanai Nayagan Neerae, Ellaavatrilum Neer Maelaanavar, Oruvarum Saera Koodaatha Oliyil).  I have been thinking about putting together some basic information regarding the influence of technology on music. In this regard I am including a link to a file here which gives a quick explanation of the various technical terms commonly involved with technologies utilized in music.  In this regard, the videos added  in this post illustrate couple of useful technologies that can possibly be utilized in churches or special worship/evangelistic programs. This time, I am adding videos which are just demonstrating the usefulness of looping and MIDI instrumentation in worship music. So I have not explained the chords in these videos.

Looping techniques in music involves repeating an audio phrase of music involving  a sequence of chords/notes/patterns or combinations of all these continuously. Using looped phrase as an accompaniment, one can sing/play a song over the looped phrase. The overall effect of the resulting music sounds like a complete band playing though all these can be done by a single person. Gadgets capable of looping musical phrases are known as loop stations or loopers. Some of these loopers have facilities to play multiple phrases  together or one after another continuously. Using such loopers, we can set the chorus of a song in a phrase and the stanza of the song in another phrase and play them interchangeably as accompaniments while singing/playing the song over them. The difference between this technique and auto-accompaniment styles that are available in lower end keyboards is that we get to determine the combination of instruments and patterns and musical pieces that are used in the accompaniment rather than using a factory pre-determined or preset accompaniment style.  Also, this technique is quite helpful for guitarists as the looping accompaniment functions can be created and controlled with foot-pedals within minutes in live programs when additional accompaniment musicians/instruements are unavailable.

Looping Example: Blessed be Your Name song video

In the above video of Blessed be Your Name, I have attempted to present how looping can be utilized for certain worhsip songs.

The song itself is a beautiful compostion by Matt Redman where we can play effectively the entire song using four simple chords. I am playing it in the key of B and  I have used just a sequence of 4 chords (B, F#, G#m,and E each played for a measure of four counts and the sequence repeated again and again) for the entire song. Here are the chord diagrams:

In my attempt here, I have used a Boss RC-30 loop station to repeat  this sequence of 4 chords.  I first played just these four chords  (each one measure) in an acoustic guitar with a simple preset drum pattern (Boss RC-30) and saved it in Boss RC-30 loop station. Then in this video, over this repeating loop started using the Boss RC-30 pedal, I am just filling in the same chords with electric guitar that aslo simoltaneously triggers a Roland SH-201 synthesizer strings patch through MIDI link with a Roland GR-30 guitar synthesizer and a GK-3 pick up. For the guitar, I am using a Zoom G9.2tt multi effects processor patch involving chorus and delay.

MIDI Instrumentation - Layering sounds:

In my next video (Anbin Mugathai), I have tried  to illustrate the utility of guitar synthesizer and MIDI linking in simoltaneously playing different layered instruments with a guitar.

The chords for this song is available in Tamil Christian songs pdf file.

Guitar synthesizers simply provide a means for guitarists to get a variety of sound possibilities that only keyboard players had access to before the 1980s. Guitar synthesizers need a special guitar pick-up known as hex pick-up to be fixed on guitars. A hex pick-up consists of six individual pick-ups each one sending electrical signals corresponding to each of the six strings of a guitar to be received separately by a guitar synthesizer. These 6 signals are then processed individually by a synthesizer and output as the chosen sound/patch of  the synthesizer sound bank/patch bank. Thus a guitar can now be used to play a saxophone patch or even a drum sound available in the synthesizer. If the synthesizer has midi ports,  we can connect to any other midi compatible device and play that device by playing the guitar.

In this video, I have connected a Roland GR-30 guitar synthesizer to the electric guitar through a hex pick-up. I have also connected the GR-30 to a Roland SH-201 keyboard through MIDI ports. This facilitates trigering the Roland Gr-30 sounds and SH-201 keyboard sounds simoltaneously while playing just the guitar. On the other hand, the direct electric guitar sound from regular pick-ups is connected to a Zoom G9.2tt guitar multi-effects processor which is facilitating a delay and chorus sound effect to the electric guitar sound. Thus, while just playing the guitar, I can have at the least two more simoltaneous layered sounds from Roland GR-30 guitar synthesizer and the Roland SH-201 keyboard sound. Each instrument sound volumes can be individually controlled according to need. Such a set up is often referred to as layering of sounds. Using this, I have played the prelude/interlude using the flute tone available in Roland GR-30 and a mild layered strings sound from SH-201. On the other hand, while singing, I am playing chords with guitar sound and a mild layered SH-201 strings patch. The drum sound is a preset pattern available at Boss RC-30 loop station pedal.

It is very important to note here that playing multiple instruments simoltaneously using guitar midi connections need additional practice to avoid any trigering of undesirable notes which are easily possible due toc secondary harmonics, a characteristic issue of stringed instruments. 

Transliterated Songs file and updates to Tamil Christian Songs file

Recently, I got a chance to update Tamil Christian songs pdf file with few more songs (Paraloga Dhevanae, Ejamaananae, Yesuvin Pinnaal Naan selvaen, Kaakkum karangal, Yehovah Yireh, Visuvaasiyin Kaadhil pada, Kuyavanae Kuyavanae and En Yesuvin Anbu Endrum). Also, some of you may have already noted the additional changes introduced in the file recently. To make it easy to know the list of available songs, I have also introduced a Songs list page in this file. In windows pcs, we can now go to the needed song's page by holding the control key and clicking on the song's name in the songs list page.

Also, I am introducing a Transliterated songs file containing chords for Indian regional language Praise and Worship songs with the lyrics written in English. To begin with, I have just started with couple of songs. I will try to update this whenever I get a chance with more songs. This may be helpful to some of us who may not know to read/write Tamil or other Indian regional languages though many of us have a desire/need to sing/learn/lead Praise and Worship songs in different languages.

Please note that the links to all the pdf file pages are always be available at the top of this blog's home page below the title.

Video of guitar chords for the song, "En Uyiraana Yesu"

I just added a video showing chords for the song, "En Uyiraana Yesu". Here is the video:

The chords written over lyrics can be found in the Tamil Songs pdf file.  For convenience, I am giving the diagrams for the un-common chord positions in here. I have not given the common barre chord diagrams of C#m, A and B which are familiar to many guitarists.

Chords for few more Tamil songs and video for Ennil Adangaatha Sthothiram

Yesterday, the Tamil songs pdf file was updated with the addition of few more songs with chords. Also, based on a request an instructional video for the song Ennil adangaatha Sthothiram has been added. Here is the video:

Chords and Video for Tamil Christian Song - Sarva Srishtikkum

A video showing the chords arrangment (in G major) for the worship song -Sarva Sristhikkum Ejamaanar Neerae has been added. The song is known in Hindi as Sare Srishtike Malik, in telugu as Athyunnatha Simhaasa Namu Pai and in Malayalam as Parishudhan Mahonnatha Devan. The written chords can be found in the Tamil Christian Songs pdf file. The same link can also be found in the tabs at the top of this blog page. Here is the video:

Updates and Guitar Chords for Thaen Inimayilum

I have added guitar chords for few more Tamil songs in the pdf file and re-arranged the file. Now the songs for which I have written chords have been brought forward in the file for easier access and I have moved the lyrics of  other songs to the later pages of the file.  Moreover, I have added tabs with links to the pdf file pages on top of this blog page. Also, I have added video for the song Thaen Inimayilum in E major. Here is the video:

Chords for Paareer Arunodhayam pol Tamil Song (Adavi Tharukalin - Malayalam)

This update includes guitar chords for an old tamil worship song, "Paareer Arunodhayam pol" which is also available in Malayalam (Adavi Tharukalin). The written chords are available in the pdf file here. I am also including here a video showing how this song can be played.

Guitar Chords for more Tamil Christian Songs

It has been more than two years since I updated this blog. Over the past few weeks,  I found some time to put together chords for some more tamil songs. The chords for these songs are also included in the pdf file.  The pdf file is not complete. The file is not yet formatted and I have included words for a few songs for which I am planning to add chords when I find time. I am also planning to add more songs whenever I find time.  Here is the link to the Tamil Songs pdf file: Tamil Christian Songs

Since it has become more easy to include online videos over the past few years, I am attempting for the first time to include links for couple of videos that show how I play the chords for some of these songs in acoustic guitar. As an initial attempt, I am adding videos for the songs "Ennaalumae thudhipaai" and "Sthothiram Yesunathaa" that show how I play contemporary style chords for these songs. Over the past decade, the playing styles of chords and chord arrangments have changed significantly. Many of us must have observed that the acoustic guitar chord accompaniment is used more commonly not just in small group worship sessions but also in large praise and worship concerts. That being the case, it may be worthwhile to learn various styles of chord arrangements. For example, in the video "Ennaalumae thudipaai", I have tried to include the traditional simple arrangement of chords (more commonly used during the eighties) followed by a contemporary pattern of chord arrangement (more common chord arrangement style in this decade). Similarly, one can attempt various types of chord arrangements for a single song and choose the one that is more useful during small group worship sessions.  Here are the videos:

Sthothiram Yesu Naatha

Ennaalumae Thudhipaai

Please feel free to include your suggestions through email/comments regarding the videos so that we can make this process better and more useful with future updates.

Guitar Chords for Tamil Christian Songs and minor update to Songs with Chords file

Some of my friends had been encouraging me for quiet sometime now to to compile a file with guitar chords for Tamil Christian songs. I just started doing this recently and have put together chords for some simple Tamil Christian songs according to how I sing these songs. Here is the link for the file:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/75286846/Music/Tamil%20Christian%20Songs.pdf


I also found some time to update the Songs file with chords for two more songs, Draw me close to You (Song 198) and Days of Elijah (Song 212). Here is the link for the file.

http://sdrv.ms/12HAArU


Thanks

Music Theory as I understand it and more updates in my songs file

I think that I have introduced significant updates in my songs file since my last post here. Chords have been introduced to more songs and I have put quite a lot of chord position diagrams.

Moreover, I had also created another file regarding music theory as I understand it. While I have tried my level best to simplify the fundamental concepts, it definitely ended up being a large file. In the later parts of this file, I have tried to include practical examples for the utilization of some uncommon chords in christian songs. As time permits, I will try to update this file too in future.

It is my hope and prayer that young christian musicians who want to do their very best with their music in small groups and christian worship sessions will find these resources helpful.

Quotes

Here are some quotes that I think are thought-provoking.

"When God is knocked out, sin is minimized" - Ravi Zacharias

"When belief becomes hard and struggles becomes great, the tendency is to turn away from God. But the million dollar question in the name of sanity in heaven's name is to what?" - Unknown

"Son, whatever weakens your reasoning, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures
your sense of God or takes away your relish for spiritual things; in short, if anything increases the authority and power of the flesh over the spirit, that to you becomes sin, however good it is in itself" - John Wesley's mother.

"Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain; meaninglessness comes from being
weary of pleasure" - G K Chesterton

"God whispers to us in our pleasure but shouts to us in our pain" - G.K. Chesterton

"Anything that refreshes you without distracting from or destroying your final goal is a legitimate pleasure" - Ravi Zacharias (What is worthwhile under the sun)

"Any pleasure that jepordizes the sacred right of another person may well be an illegitimate pleasure" - Ravi Zacharias

Any pleasure however good if not kept in balance will distort reality or destroy apetite"
- Ravi Zacharias

Pleasure for pleasure's sake will leave you empty. Pleasure must only be a means. It can
never be an end in itself. - Ravi Zacharias.

"Character is what we are in the dark." - D.L. Moody.

"Whatever a man does without God, in that he must either fail miserably or suceed even more miserably." - George Mcdonald.

"The church should move on its knees seeking God" - Erwin Lutzer.

"One of the reasons that you find people are so driven often times is because they try to cover their emptiness in their lives that they will not face." - Erwin Lutzer

"An opinion is a position you hold with a varied degree of intensity that merely voices your preferences. But a conviction is that which is rooted in your conscience. If you were to toy with your opinions, you are going to jostle with your preferences. If you were to toy with your conviction, you were going to deal with your conscience. And it is pivotal to know that. A conviction that is ungirded by love will make the possesser of them obnoxious and the dogma he possesses repulsive." - Ravi Zacharias

"Sin is violation of a Person - the Person of God" - Ravi Zacharias

"The Cross - The crossroad where justice kissed peace when grace met the truth during the ultimate sacrifice that mankind had ever known."

Updates to my Songs with Chords file

It has been a while since I wrote something in here. This post is about the updates to my Songs with Guitar Chords pdf file. I have recently included few more songs with chords. I have also started including diagrams for position of some of the unfamiliar chords (along with the songs) on the guitar fretboard. This, I thought may be helpful to learn and practice using these chords for these songs. So far, I have included chord position diagrams for the first fifty songs in the file. So now one can find the relevant chord position diagrams for any of the first fifty songs in the file within three pages above or below that song in the file. In due course of time, I will try to include chord position diagrams for all the songs in the file.

Memorials and Memories

Joshua 4: 4-7
4 So Joshua called together the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe, 5 and said to them, "Go over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, 6 to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, 'What do these stones mean?' 7 tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.


One of my favorite passages in the bible is in Joshua Chapter 4. As the Israelites crossed Jordan, their new leader Joshua commanded something unusual for them to do. He commanded the twelve tribes to collect twelve stones as memorial pieces of this marvelous event for the nation of Israel forever.

Whenever we come across life-threatening trials (similar to that of a flooding Jordan in front of the Israelites) in our lives, we need to understand that God allows such trials to prove His marvelous faithfulness and awesome control that He has over anything and everything in our lives. When passing through such trials, we need to learn to see far beyond those trials and plan how we can later testify about God’s greatness and faithfulness during such a time to others. Such trials are nothing but opportunities for us to build everlasting memorials about God’s faithfulness and awesome control over our lives.

Such memorials can
(i) build our confidence in Him when we face even larger trials later in our lives
(ii) minimize any kind of trial ahead of us and maximize our focus on God’s awesome power and His faithfulness in our lives and
(iii) help others around us see, wonder and believe in this awesome God.

Here is another example from the bible where another great man of God won a marvelous victory against a giant who was terrorizing an entire nation.

I Samuel 17: 32-37

32 David said to Saul, "Let no one lose heart on account of this Philistine; your servant will go and fight him."
33 Saul replied, "You are not able to go out against this Philistine and fight him; you are only a boy, and he has been a fighting man from his youth."
34 But David said to Saul, "Your servant has been keeping his father's sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, 35 I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. 36 Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. 37 The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine." Saul said to David, "Go, and the LORD be with you."

When David saw Goliath, he went to Saul and said that he would go against this giant and bring him down. Saul and his security council were not really convinced of this young man’s idea. But then David told them about how God had helped him protect his father’s sheep from wild beasts in the past. It is in fact interesting to see the confident David minimizing Goliath as similar to one of those wild beasts while the whole nation of Israel was trembling at the very sight of Goliath. David had built up such an awesome and accurate memorial of God’s faithfulness and power in his life that the idea of Goliath being anything significant sounded so trivial to him.

In our fast paced world, do we pause and try to remember the great things that God has done in our lives? In this age of wired (better said wireless!!!!) communication, we are rapidly getting used to store all the needed information for our professional world, in wireless gadgets or in online servers that we don’t have to remember them any more. We are also getting used to backing up the data that we collect to avoid any loss of data due to accidental deletions or hardware crashes.

But when was the last time that we paused to record the data of God’s greatness and His faithfulness in our lives even as He brought us out of a nasty problem which we thought would sink us down?

Also, when we think of our various painful struggles in the past, do we complain about them or do we praise God for leading us out of those trials with His awesome power? What is our first thought about our nasty problems in the past? Are we able to look back and praise God for His mercies and grace? Or are we grumbling against Him with bitterness for leading us through such a rough terrain?

We need to understand that memory is a God given gift to mankind. But human memory often keeps record of all the wrong things for a longer time leading to scars of bitterness. We as human beings tend to often remember the wrong or tragic things that happen to us for a long time while often forgetting God’s faithfulness and grace for us to overcome those painful moments.

Probably, this is where memorials play an important role in human life. If we think about memorials, it will be interesting to note that most memorials in history throughout the world are raised by people to always remind us of either some monumental achievement of someone as a person or the resilience of a community of people during a tragic time in history. Similarly, personal memorials regarding God’s goodness in our own lives during tough times can help us keep a better record of God’s faithfulness and grace in our lives. Such memorials also help us to minimize any major trial that we may have to face in future by helping us to focus on Him and Him alone. Beyond all these, it may be that God leads us successfully through such painful trials and struggles in our own lives so that we can later graciously help with confidence people around us who may go through a similar path. Therefore the next time we face some major trial or threat in our own lives, let us remember to focus on recording accurately God’s greatness and faithfulness through it. And while we are yet recording His perfect guidance, we may find ourselves already out of the problem.

Songs with Chords

I just added a link to one of my old webpages containing lyrics of Christian songs with guitar chord arrangements. Most of the chord arrangements were written by me and some of my friends according to how we sing these songs in our small groups in India. Over a period of time, I had collected all these arrangements together from our old notebooks and put it on a webpage as an Adobe Acrobat reader file. Hope this will be useful for someone out there looking for a quick arrangement of chords for an old song. I will try to update this page in future with more songs and an index. One can always find this link in my links list in this page. Feel free to add suggestions regarding this.

Anyway

Let me start my blog here with one of my all time favorite poems apparently written by one Kent Keith. The poem is titled "Anyway".

“Anyway”

People are often unreasonable, illogical,and self-centered;

Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, People may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;

Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;

Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;

Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight.

Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;

Be happy anyway.
The good you do today,people will often forget tomorrow;

Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have,and it may never be enough;

Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis,it is between you and God;

It was never between you and them anyway.
Kent Keith