Silent Night chords by Bill Anderson

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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He was born in an
obscure village,
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the son of a simple peasant woman.
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He grew up in another small town
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and worked with his father
C 
in the carpenter's shop
until he was thirty.
And then for three years
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he was what we might call
a traveling preacher.
He never wrote a book.
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He never held political office.
The places he did go, he usually walked.
G 
He never did any of the things
that one normally associates
with greatness.
Em 
D 
He had no credentials,
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but himself.
Em 
When he was only 33,
the tide of public opinion
A 
turned against him.
G 
Some of his friends deserted him.
Em 
One denied him.
D 
One even betrayed him
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and turned him over to his enemies.
Em 
He went through the mockery of a trial.
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He was nailed to a cross
between two thieves.
While he was dying,
his executioners gambled
for his only possession,
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D 
his robe, his purple robe.
When he was dead,
G 
he was taken from the cross
and laid in a borrowed grave,
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provided through the compassion
C 
of a friend.
Twenty wide centuries
have since come and gone,
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and today this man is the centerpiece
of the human race,
the leader in the column
C 
of mankind's progress.
I think that I am well within the mark
when I say that all the armies
G 
that ever marched,
all the navies that ever
sailed the seven seas,
Em 
D 
all the legislative bodies
that ever met,
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all      the kings and rulers
Em 
that have ever reigned,
all put together,
A 
have not affected the life
G 
of man on this earth
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as much as that one solitary life.
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Silent night, holy night
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All is calm, all is bright
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C 
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Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child,
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Holy Infant so tender and mild,
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Sleep in heavenly peace
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Sleep in heavenly peace
G 
you