Key: G major
Verse 1
G
F
G
The honey and the ivy,
G
C
Of all the trees that are in the wood,
D
G
the honey bears the crown.
O the rising of the sun,
D
G
C
G
The playing of the merry or gan,
Sweet singing in the choir.
D
C
G
The holy boughs are blossom,
As white as lily flower,
Em
D
G
To be our dear Saviour.
C
G
For the rising of the sun,
Em
Bm
And the running of the deer,
D
G
C
The playing of the merry organ,
D
G
Dm
G
still singing in the choir.
D
Bm
The bonnie bells are merry,
Em
G
as red as any blight,
D
G
C
And merry more sweet Je sus Christ,
G
D
G
to do poor sinners good.
O the rising of the sun,
and the running of the deer,
D
G
Em
The playing of the merry organ,
C
G
C
D
G
C
D
Sweet singing in the choir.
G
D
The holly bears a preacon,
Em
D
As sharp as any thorn,
C
G
And Mary bore sweet Je sus Christ
Asus4
D
G
On Christmas Day in the morn.
C
G
O 'er the rising of the sun,
Em
Bm
And the running of the deer,
D
G
C
G
The flame of the many or gans
C
D
G
which seem him in the choir.
The holy Bezalel, as bitter as the gall,
Bm
C
D
G
Christ bore to redeem us all.
C
G
For the rising of the sun,
Em
Bm
and the running of the deer,
D
G
C
The playing of the penny organs,
D
G
D
G
we'd singing in the choir.
F
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