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Little Gray Donkey chords by 
Tennessee Ernie Ford 
N/A•
Key: G major•BPM: 38
Verse 1
Bm
G
F#m
Oh, carry her safe to Bethlehem,
G
A
Bm
Little Grey Donkey, tonight.
E
A
F#m
A miracle rests on your small feet,
G
A
Little Grey Donkey, tonight.
Bm
G
Say, I'll bet you didn't know that way,
way back,
Clear back to the end
A
of the sixth day of creation,
D
the Lord was mighty tired
after all that work
G
of making the sun, the moon,
A
the stars,
and the earth.
G
What's more, on top of all that,
Bm
He'd made Mr. Adam an d Mrs. Eve,
C
plus elephants, rabbits,
lightning bugs, polar bears,
C#dim
lots of other walking, flying,
A
D
creeping creatures too numerous to even mention.
Bm
Anyway, the Lord had
C
surely earned
G
His seventh day of rest,
A
But as he turned to go,
D
a sudden thought made him stop.
G
He studded on it for a moment,
and then he picked up another
little piece of clay.
D
After shaping it to his liking,
C
G
he reached up on a shelf
and took a pinch of courage,
a dab of humility,
D
six grains of faithfulness,
Cm
a dash of ugly peals,
and a good big handful of
solemn wisdom.
G
Putting all this into the
little animal he had fashioned
Fm
Cm
for a very special time he knew would come,
G
the Lord gave it a pat
F
and sent it down to earth.
Cm
Gm
Cm
G
C
Cm
G
And then upon
a winter's day
Bb
and in the long ago,
C
Cm
the dusty road to Bethlehem
A
G
was trod by many feet,
and in that throng a donkey walked,
a donkey small and gray,
as donkeys plod their donkey days
Cm
Fm
in cold or rain or heat.
Bb
Cm
G
No hand reached out to touch him
A
as he went his donkey way,
G
Cm
no scribe set down his donkey name
for men unborn to say,
F
no eye could see a radiance
G
about this lowly one
Cm
who plodded and on to Bethlehem
Bb
Cm
with Mary and God's Son.
F
Cm
O carry her safe to Bethlehem,
little grey donkey, tonight.
C
F
C
A miracle rests on your small feet,
Cm
Bb
Cm
little grey donkey, tonight.
C
Em
For heaven is watch
F
G
ing your mission di vine,
Am
Em
D
G
And over a stable a star waits to shine,
Am
G
While shepherds and wise men
F
Em
go look for the sign.
F
G
C
G
Little grey donkey, do not.
A king will come, the prophets cried,
As kings have come of yore,
On noble steed with golden crown
and silver trumpet call.
Cm
But on that silent holy night,
G
there was no pomp nor pride
D
Cm
in Bethlehem.
G
Cm
The child king came to Bethlehem
C
upon a donkey small,
Cm
G
Cm
G
a donkey old and tired and gray
Cm
Dm
with long and drooping ears,
Eb
Cm
and no one dreamed
C
Ab
Cm
he brought our world a light of after years,
Eb
C
G
a donkey plodding through the dust
to see God's will was done,
F
G
and bearing on his ragged
the Virgin and God's Son.
Cm
F
Oh, carry her safe to Bethlehem,
Cm
Little Grey Donkey, tonight.
F
C
A miracle rests on your small feet,
Cm
Bb
Cm
Little Grey Donkey, tonight.
C
Em
F
G
All heaven is watching your patiently lie,
Am
Em
D
And over the stable a star waits
G
to shine.
Am
G
While shepherds and wise men
F
Em
all look for the sign,
F
G
Am
Dm
E
Little Grey Donkey, rest little donkey,
F
G
C
Cause little donkey to pound.
Dm
G
F
Em
Dm
Cm
Cm
C
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