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