I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day chords by The Civil Wars

Chords with lyrics

This is my interpretation of the song, there are no actual tabs anywhere else for it so I tried to do it by
ear, but there are quite a few changes from the original in the chorus.

To play along with the original use capo 5th but I play with no capo.


Short Riff h= Hammer On

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 A minorAm    E/Am   D MajorD     G+G
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
   A minorAm  E/Am  F#/G  G+G
Their old familiar carols play,
  DmDm    G+G     E minorEm  A augmentedA
And wild and sweet the words repeat
  C majorC          FF  E MajorE A minorAm
Of peace on earth, good will to men

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 A minorAm      E/Am  D MajorD    G+G
I thought how, as the day had come,
  A minorAm    E/Am  F#/G  G+G
The belfries of all Christendom
  DmDm   G+G      E minorEm   C majorC
Had rolled along the unbroken song
  C majorC          FF  E MajorE A minorAm
Of peace on earth, good will to men

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  C majorC      DmDm    G+G
And in despair I bowed my head:
    C majorC       FF     G+G
"There is no peace on earth," I said,
   A7A7         DmDm    G+G
"For hate is strong and mocks the song
  C majorC          FF  G+G A minorAm
Of peace on earth, good will to men"

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   A minorAm     E/Am    D MajorD    G+G
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
A minorAm   E/Am   F#/G    G+G
God is not dead, nor doth he sleep,
  DmDm     G+G     E minorEm  A augmentedA
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,
   C majorC          FF  E MajorE A minorAm