While You Were Sleeping chords by Casting Crowns

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: G

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
G           D             Em
  Oh little town of Bethlehem
            C             G    D Em C
Looks like another silent night
G          D                  Em
Above your deep and dreamless sleep
        C                  G  D Em C
A giant star lights up the sky
G                D            Em
And while you're lying in the dark
      C             G        D Em C
There shines an everlasting light
G       D                 Em
For the King has left His throne
       C             G         D        Em  C
And is sleeping in a manger tonight - tonight

Chorus:
G          D                  Em                    C
  Oh Bethlehem, what you have missed while you were sleeping
    G            D               Em                C
For God became a man and stepped into your world today
G        D                Em           C
Oh Bethlehem, you will go down in history
     G            D            Em   C
As a city with no room for its King
                G     D Em C                    G     D Em C
While you were sleeping    -    While you were sleeping

Verse 2:
G      D              Em
  Mary shivers in the cold
          C               G   D Em C
Trying to keep the Savior warm
G             D         Em               C
Born among the animals, wrapped in dirty rags
        G                     D          Em               C
Because there was no room for Him in the world He came to save.

Chorus:
G          D                  Em                    C
  Oh Bethlehem, what you have missed while you were sleeping
    G            D               Em                C
For God became a man and stepped into your world today
G        D                Em           C
Oh Bethlehem, you will go down in history
     G            D            Em   C
As a city with no room for its King
                G     D Em C                    G     D Em C
While you were sleeping    -    While you were sleeping

Verse 3:
G       D              Em
 United States of America
            C             G    D Em C
Looks like another silent night
G                 D               Em
 As we're sung to sleep by philosophies
              C                  G      D Em C
That save the trees and kill the children
G                D            Em
 And while we're lying in the dark
          C                      G         D Em C
There's a shout heard 'cross the eastern sky
G        D                Em
 For the Bridegroom has returned
        C                 G              D           Em   C
And has carried His bride away in the night - in the night

Chorus:
G      D               Em                C
 America, what will we miss while we are sleeping
     G           D                 Em                  C
Will Jesus come again and leave us slumbering where we lay
G      D             Em          C
 America, will we go down in history
     G              D            Em  C
As a nation with no room for its King
           G      D Em C                G      D Em C
Will we be sleeping    -     Will we be sleeping

Outro:
G       D              Em               C              G
 United States of America - Looks like another silent night..