[Intro: ]G - G - D - D - G  
  
G Well the *Bible tells us about a man  
G Who ruled Babylon and C all it's G land  
G Around the city he built a wall  
G And declared that Babylon would D never G fall  
  
He had concubines and wives   
He called his Babylon "Paradise"  
On his throne he drank and ate  
But for Belshazzer it was getting late  
  
Chorus:  
G For he was weighed in the balance and found wanting  
G His kingdom was divided, couldn't stand D  
D He was G weighed in the balance and found wanting  
G His houses were D built upon the sand G  
  
Solo: G - G - D - D - G  
  
The people feast and drank their wine    
And praised the false gods of his time   
All holy things were scorned and mocked   
But suddenly all their mocking stopped  
   
For on the wall there appeared a hand  
Nothing else, there was no man  
And but, the hand began to write   
And Belshazzar couldn't hide his fright  
  
For he was weighed in the balance and found wanting  
His kingdom was divided, couldn't stand  
He was weighed in the balance and found wanting  
His houses were built upon the sand   
  
Solo: G - G - D - D - G  
  
Well no one around could understand  
What was written by the mystic hand  
Belshazzar tried but couldn't find  
A man who could give him piece of mind  
  
But Daniel the prophet, the man of God  
He saw the writing on the wall in blood  
Belshazzar asked him what it said  
And Daniel turned to the wall and read  
  
"My friend your weighed in the balance and found wanting  
Your kingdom was divided, it can't stand  
Your weighed in the balance and found wanting  
Your houses were built upon the sand"   
  
Ending: G - G - D - D - G  
  
*Here is the scripture from the Bible (KJV) that  
"Belshazzer" by Johnny Cash is based on:  
  
Daniel 5:1-Belshazzar the king made a great   
feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine  
before the thousand.  
  
Daniel 5:4-8- They drank wine and praised the gods   
of gold, and silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of  
stone.  
  
In the same hour came forth fingers of a man, and  
wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster  
of the wall of the king's palace: and Belshazzar saw   
the part of the hand that wrote.  
  
Then the king's countenance was charged,  
and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his  
loins were loosed, and his knees smote against one another.  
Belshazzar cried out loud to bring in the astrologers, the   
Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke, and said  
Whoever can read this writing and explain it to me, you will  
be clothed in scarlet, and have a chain of gold around his neck  
and be the third ruler of Babylon.  
  
Then the wise men were brought in and could not read  
the writing.  
  
Daniel 5:12-An excellent spirit, the knowledge, and understanding,  
and showing of hard sentences and his name was Daniel. (He was   
brought before the king)  
  
Daniel 5: 24-28 - Then was the part of the hand sent from him;  
and this writing was written.  
  
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Opharsin.  
  
This is the translation: Mene; God hath numbered thy kingdom  
and finished it.  
  
Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.  
  
Opharsin; Thy kingdom is divided.  
  
For further reading, stop by Daniel 5 and check it out!  
Tyler