I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day chords by Michael Martin Murphey
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Verse 1
(D major) I heard the bells on (A major) Christmas day
Their (D major) old fa (A major) mili (B minor) ar (Asus4) carols play
And (D major) wild and sweet their
word (F sharp major) s repeat (B minor)
(D major) Peace on the earth good will (A major) to men (D major)
Verse 2
(D major)
And in despair (A major) I bowed my head
(D major) There is no peace on (A major) earth I said
(D major) For hate is strong (F sharp major) and mocks the song
(B minor) Of (B flat major) (D major) peace on earth,
(A major) good will to men
(D major)
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Verse 3
Then answered those bells, (A major) loud and deep
(D major) God is not dead, (A major) nor does he sleep
The (D major) wrong shall fail, and the (F sharp major) right prevail (B minor)
(D major) With peace on earth,
good (A major) will to men (D major)
Verse 4
(D major) Ya know, I like the way folks (A major) used to do
(D major) Back when cattle was plenty
(A major) and folks was few
(D major) Everybody would gather
from far and near (F sharp major) (B minor)
(B flat major) An d (D major) barbecue'em a big fat steer
(A major) The kids they liked (D major) staying' awake because well,
They reckon they might catch Santa Claus
In the morning they'd come
racing down to see
What (A major) Santa'd gone and left
underneath that tree (D major)
It was Christ (A major) mas back in
those days
For the rich (D major) and for the (F sharp major) poor (B minor)
(B flat major) And every (D major) grandchild
had an open door (A major)
(D major) And the old cowboy who came
on the company horse
Was treated the same as the owner
or the boss (A major)
You see nobody seemed to have a (D major) care
He was in among friends or he wasn't there
Of (A major) course some (D major) have new boots
they sure would admire
As they warmed (F sharp major) their feet
in front of the fire (B minor) (B flat major)
(D major) And the women folk they had
new clothes too (A major) (D major)
But not like the women of Austin,
TX did
Sometimes right (A major) in the middle of the party
An old (D major) stranger would come
riding in (A major)
We always wondered who he
was and (D major) where he'd been
(F sharp major) And as the years rolled on an (B minor) d on (B flat major)
We'd (D major) always wondered where that old stranger
with the long (A major) beard had gone (D major)
Well maybe it's like the book
of Corinthians
Where it says something in there
(A major) Sometimes you get visited by an angel
(D major) and you're not even aware (A major)
(D major) So I still recall that Christmas night
The (F sharp major) tops of the mountain
(B minor) s capped with white (B flat major)
(D major) And the stars so bright they seemed ablaze
(A major) As the foothills were swimming
(D major) in a silver haze
Now those good ol' days are mostly tasked (A major) and
(D major) goneTime and the world and change (A major) goes on
(D major) And I reckon we can't do things quite
like we used to do (F sharp major) (B minor) (B flataug) (D major)
Back when cattle was plenty
in (A major) Texas (D major)
Outro 1
And shopping malls and condos were few
(D major)
I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
Michael Martin Murphey
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