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The Wise Men easy guitar chords by Penny Wilcock
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Verse 1
Now you mustn't
run away with the idea
that just
because Mary and Joseph
were poor
and Jesus
was poor
all
his friends were poor
too
because
that's not how it was
at all.
Jesus
did
say it was
very very
difficult
to
be really good
and really
rich
both
at the same time.
He
didn't say it was impossible
but it
was difficult enough
that he didn't really
see
how it could be
done.
But then not all
of Jesus' friends
were good.
He didn't have to
worry about who his
friends were
because
he carried enough
goodness
and love inside
himself
for the whole
lot of them.
And certainly
his friends were a
mixed bag,
rich and
poor, good
and bad, all
sorts together.
In fact
he had some really funny
friends,
did Jesus.
The thing that was the
same about all of them
was that they couldn't
help loving him.
They could
see there was something about
Jesus
that was
better than anything
else life
had to offer
and that
something was
the way he loved
them I think.
Anyway,
right
at the beginning of his
life
when
he was just a
toddler
Jesus
found out he
had some very
rich friends indeed.
Now I want you
to imagine this if you
can.
Far away
from where Jesus
was born,
a
long time before
Jesus was born,
in the land of
perfume and spices,
the mysterious Orient,
There
lived some wise
men,
and
their wisdom came
from learning about
the stars.
They
knew the names of all
the stars
that
were known to humankind,
and
they knew about the
slow dancing
of
the stars in the
sky.
They even knew what
the movements of the stars
meant,
as if it was a
kind of language.
These were wonderful
men,
wise
and watchful,
with
thin dark faces
and long
black beards.
They had the darkest
brown eyes,
and beautiful
hands with long
fingers.
They didn't
go to discos or
parties,
because
they were too busy thinking.
They
didn't spend their evenings
like the shepherds did,
talking
and laughing round
the fire,
playing musical
instruments and telling
stories.
Not them.
They
would spend their evenings
in high towers,
as
close to the sky as
they could be,
gazing on the mystery
of the night,
and gathering the secrets
of the stars
as they
traced their shining
dance.
They were
quiet,
solemn,
serious men.
They
didn't smile very
much,
but
when they did,
their white teeth
would flash
in their dark faces
like moonlight
sparkling
on water,
and their
eyes would dance
and twinkle like
stars.
Nobody knows
their names
for sure,
because it was all
so long
ago and far
away, day,
but it is said
their names were
Caspar
and Melchior
and Balthazar.
They were fabulously
rich,
and they wore long
robes and
cloaks
in
deep rich colours
of purple and
ochre
and crimson.
Their hats
were embroidered
with threads of pure
gold,
and here and there,
as they climbed
the stairs
to the
top of their starry
tower,
you
might catch a gleam
of a ruby,
or a sapphire,
fire, or
an emerald,
like flashes
of secret fire
scattered
in their robes.
And as they watched
the stars,
Balthasar
and Caspar
and Melchior
discovered
a marvellous thing.
Something
they
had been searching for
for a long,
long time.
One
day, over
the horizon
of the dark night
sky,
there arose a new
and beautiful
star. star.
The
wise men knew all
the stars by
sight and by name,
and
it was none of the stars
they knew.
It was a royal
star,
of resplendent
beauty,
and it meant the king
of the whole world
had been born.
So,
terribly
excited in their
quiet,
dignified,
serious sort of
a way,
Melchior,
and Balthasar,
and
Caspar,
got ready for a
journey.
They wanted to
find the one who'd
been born king
of the whole
world,
so that they could
bow down before
him
and
let him know
they would serve
him,
even
in the land
of spices
far away.
They went
to the shops of
the merchants.
Not like
shops we have
with counters
and
tills
and things
hanging up
everywhere,
and lots of
bright lights.
No,
their shops
were in dark
alleys
of houses built
close together,
with only
a small dusty
sign
hanging
on the outside
saying
things like
Zoroaster's
Gold Refinery
and
Perfumes
of Araby
and
The Orient
Express,
and when you got
inside the
shops,
they were just
dim little
rooms
where
a merchant
or a craftsman
kept
his wares.
Not
an easy place
to go shopping
if you're on holiday,
but the wise
men knew
just where
to go
and
just
what they wanted
to buy
as presents
for the
new -born king.
I
think you
know what they brought
him,
don't you?
They
bought him a piece
of pure gold,
because gold
in their land
was a sign
of being a
king.
They bought him
frankincense,
which is stuff that
you burn,
and when you
burn it
it makes the
most beautiful
perfume.
In
the eastern land
where the wise men
lived,
frankincense was burnt as
a prayer,
burnt as an offering to
God.
And they bought him
Myrrh.
Myrrh has a
wonderful perfume too,
but myrrh
is not used for
prayer.
Myrrh, in the land
of the wise men,
was put on the
body of someone who had
died,
and
it was a sign of death.
What strange
presents to
take!
Gold, because they knew
Jesus was a king.
Frankincense, because they
knew
that when they had
found their way to Jesus,
they would have found
their way to God.
Myrrh,
because they knew
Jesus was
born to suffer and
die.
And
they
put on their beautiful
cloaks,
and they packed
their presents carefully
in boxes of
carved sandalwood,
and they set off by
night,
following
the bright shining
of a star.
And one of
them rode a horse,
and one of them rode
an elephant,
and one of them rode
a camel.
It
was a long,
long journey.
But because
they were quiet,
and serious,
and dignified,
they knew how
to be patient,
and none of them ever
asked,
Are
we nearly there
yet?"
They
just carried on
and on,
for weeks
and months,
through deserts
and jungles,
along narrow
passes,
over high
mountains covered
with snow,
through
towns and villages
and along country
roads,
until at last
they
came to the
place
where Jesus was.
And they knew when
it was the right place,
because their star
stopped right
there.
So they did too.
Journeys
end.
And then,
just
as humble as the shepherds
in all their
poverty,
they too knocked
politely at the door
and waited to be
asked in,
and they wiped their
feet carefully,
and came
up to little Jesus,
and they kneeled
right down
on the ground,
bending low
so that their
fore
heads
even touched the
floor,
and they
offered him their gifts
of gold,
and frankincense,
and
myrrh,
and then they went back
home.
You
see
what I mean about Jesus
having some funny
friends?
If you
think about it,
it seems odd,
doesn't it, to
go all that
long way
just
to give someone a
present?
Why not just put
it in the post?
Well I
think it was because
they wanted,
even once,
to be in the same
place,
in the same
room with Jesus.
Because the wonderful
thing about
Jesus
was the
way he loved you,
and it was
worth crossing
mountains and the
desert,
to
be in the presence of
his loving and his
peace.
So that
was an interesting thing,
really,
that they, the
wise men,
who were so very clever,
and so fabulously
rich,
thought more of the
gift Jesus gave
them,
of kindness and
love,
which any one
can afford to give,
than of all
the perfumes and
gold of Arabia,
which they
laid in homage at his feet.
I hope he was
pleased with his presence,
even if
they seem a
bit strange
to you
and me.
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