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Verse 1
Joy (D major) to the world!
The Lord (A major) is (D major) come!
Here (G major) was a man,
a man who was (A major) born in an
obscure village,
the child of (D major) a simple peasant
woman.
He grew up in another obscure
village.
Until he was thirty years of age,
he worked as a carpenter,
and then for three years he
was a traveling preacher.
He never wrote a book.
He never held political office.
He never owned a home.
He never had a (A major) family.
He never went to college.
He never set foot in (D major) side a big city.
He never traveled more than 200 miles
from the place of his birth.
(A major) And where he did go, he usually (D major) walked.
He never did one of the things
that one usually associates
with greatness.
He had no credentials (A major) but himself.
(D major) He had nothing to do with this world
(G major) ex cept through (E minor) the supreme power
of (A major) his (D major) divine (A major) manhood.
(D major) While still a young man,
the tide of popular opinion
turned against him.
Most of his friends (B flat major) ran away.
(Ddim) One of (F minor) them denied him.
(Ddim) One (D major) of them even betrayed him
and turned him over to his
enemies.
He went through the mockery of a trial
and was nailed (E flat major) to a wooden cross
(D flat major) between two thieves.
(F minor) And even while he was dying,
his (B flat major) executioners (B flat minor) gambled for the only piece of
(E flat major) property he had in this world,
and that was his (E flatdim) robe, his (G flat major) purple robe.
(B flat minor) When he was dead,
he was taken down from the cross
and laid in a borrowed grave
provided by compassionate
friends. (E flat major)
Nineteen wide cen (B flat major) turies
have (E flat major) since come and gone,
(A flat major) an d today he is (F minor) the centerpiece
(B flat major) of the human race,
the leader in (E flat major) the column of human progress.
I think I am well within the mark
when I say that all of
the armies that ever marched,
all of the navies that ever
sailed the seven seas,
all of the legislative bodies that ever sat
and (B flat major) all of the kings that (B flat minor) ever reigned,
all put (B flat major) to gether,
(E flat major) have not affected the
life of man on this earth,
so powerfully, as that one solitary life.
Here was a man.
Joy to the world!
The Lord (B flat major) is come! (E flat major)
Here Was A Man
Tex Ritter
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