Once In Royal Davids City chords by Cecil Frances Alexander

• Capo on 5th

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice

Verse 1:
G7      C      D7       G7  C
Once in roy-al Da-vid's cit-y
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Stood a low-ly cat-tle shed,
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Where a mother laid her ba - by
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In a man-ger for His bed.
F    C        Dm   G7 C
Mary was that moth-er mild,
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Jesus Christ her lit-tle Child.

Verse 2:
G7      C      D7          G7   C
He came down to earth from heav-en,
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Who is God and Lord of all,
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And His shelter was a sta-ble,
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And His cra-dle was a stall;
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With the poor, and mean, and lowly,
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Lived on earth our Sav-ior holy.


Verse 3:
G7          C       D7       G7    C
And through all His wondrous child-hood
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He would hon-or and o-bey,
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Love and watch the lowly maid-en,
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In whose gen-tle arms He lay:
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Christian children all must be
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Kild, obedient, good as  He.


Verse 4:
G7     C      D7          G7  C
For he is our childhood's pat-tern;
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Day by day, like us He grew;
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He was little, weak and help-less,
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Tears and smiles like us He knew;
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And He feels for all our sadness,
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And He shares in all our gladness.


Verse 5:
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And our eyes at last shall see Him,
            G  C   F    G   C
Through His own re-deem-ing love;
 G7      C        D7       G7   C
For that Child so dear and gen-tle
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Is our Lord in heaven a-bove,
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And He leads His chil-dren on
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To the place where He is gone.