The Gift chords by Aselin Debison

Chords with lyrics

C majorC
A augmentedA poor orphan girl named Maria
  C majorC
Was walking the market one day.
  G+G
She stopped for to rest by the road side
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Where a bird with a broken wing lay.


 C majorC
A augmentedA few moments passed till she saw it
     C majorC
For it's feathers were covered with sand.
  G+G
And soon clean and wrapped it was traveling
    G+G
In the warmth of Maria's small hand.

  FF
She happily gave her last peso
   C majorC
For a cage made of rushes and twine.
  FF
She fed it loose corn from the market,
  C majorC
And watched it grow stronger with time.


    C majorC
Now the gift giving service was coming,
    C majorC
And the church shone with tinsel and lights,
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And all of the town folk brought presents,
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To lay by the manger that night.


   C majorC
There were diamonds and incense and perfume
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In packages fit for a king.
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But for one ragged bird in a small cage,
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Maria had nothing to bring.


FF
She waited till just before midnight,
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So no one would see her go in.
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And crying she knelt be the manger,
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For her gift was unworthy of him.

    D MajorD
Then a voice spoke to her through the darkness:
 D MajorD            A augmentedA
"Maria what brings you to me?
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If the bird in the cage is your offering,
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Then open the door let me see."


    D MajorD
So she trembled and did as he asked her
  D MajorD
And out of the cage the bird flew,
A augmentedA
Soaring up into the rafters
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On a wing that had healed good as new.


  G+G
And just as the midnight bells rang out,
  D MajorD
The little bird started to sing
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A augmentedA song that no words could recapture,
     D MajorD
For it's beauty was fit for a king.


  D MajorD
Now Maria felt blessed just to listen
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To the cascade of notes sweet and long
    A augmentedA
As her offering was lifted to heaven,
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