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