Key: A major
Verse 1
Em
Bm
C
G
Once in
royal David's city
Bm
C
G
Stood a lowly cattle shed
Where a mother laid her baby
Bm
G
In a manger for his bed.
C
G
C
G
Mary was that mother mild,
C
G
Jesus Christ her little child.
He came down to earth from heaven,
Who is God and Lord of all.
And His shelter was a stable,
Bm
G
And His cradle was a stool.
C
G
C
G
With the poor and needy and lowly,
C
G
Lived on earth our Saviour holy.
And through all his wondrous childhood
C
Bm
G
He would honor and obey,
Love and watch the lowly maiden,
Bm
G
In whose gentle arms he lay.
C
G
C
G
Christian children all must be
C
G
C
G
Mild, obedient, good as he.
For years our childhoods patterned,
Day by day like us he grew.
He was little, weak, and helpless,
Bm
G
tears and smiles like hearts He knew.
C
G
C
G
And He feeleth for our sadness,
C
G
and He shareth in our gladness.
And our eyes at last shall see him
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G
through his own redeeming love.
For that child so dear and gentle
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G
is our Lord from heaven above.
C
G
C
G
And he leads his children on
C
G
To the place where he is gone.
Not in that poor lowly stable,
With the oxen standing by,
We shall see him, but in heaven,
Bm
G
Set at God's right hand on high.
C
G
When, stars, his children crumb,
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