How Suddenly A Baby Cries chords by Keith & Kristyn Getty

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Verse 1:
  C minorCm     F minorFm
How suddenly a baby cries
  Eb MajorEb     Bb majorBb
and all forever change
  C minorCm         F minorFm
As shepherds leave the angel song
  Eb MajorEb    F minorFm  C minorCm
to find this holy place
   G minorGm   C minorCm    F minorFm    Eb MajorEb
Where in her young and trembling arms
 C minorCm        G minorGm
a virgin holds her Son
  F minorFm        C minorCm
And in this Child of breath divine
  DmDm        C minorCm  Bb2
our Light has finally come

Verse 2:
  C minorCm       F minorFm
She ponders how the Magi kneel
  Eb MajorEb     Bb majorBb
be-fore Emmanu-el
   C minorCm        F minorFm
With gold and frankin-cense and myrrh
     Eb MajorEb  F minorFm    C minorCm
Christ’s sacri-fice they tell
  G minorGm     C minorCm    F minorFm   Eb MajorEb
A augmentedA dream would help them flee a king
   C minorCm           G minorGm
whose pride would cruelly des-troy
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As mothers weep God’s mercy meets
  DmDm       C minorCm  Bb2
the hunger for His joy


Verse 3:
   C minorCm        F minorFm
What wonder still that Anna filled
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with praise should bless the Lord
  C minorCm       F minorFm
Her aging eyes now looking on
  Eb MajorEb   F minorFm   C minorCm
the Savior of the world
  G minorGm    C minorCm   F minorFm     Eb MajorEb
For night and day her prayers had filled
  C minorCm      G minorGm
the temple of our God
  F minorFm          C minorCm
Her heart could tell His saving hand
   DmDm       C minorCm  Bb2
with-in this gift of love

Verse 4:
   C minorCm       F minorFm
Hear Simeon who had waited long
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draw near to hold the child
  C minorCm        F minorFm
To speak of Him who would reveal
  Eb MajorEb  F minorFm     C minorCm
the many thoughts we hide
   G minorGm      C minorCm   F minorFm    Eb MajorEb
That hearts would rise to know His grace
  C minorCm     G minorGm
but many fall a-way
 F minorFm           C minorCm
A augmentedA sword would pierce His mother’s soul
  DmDm      C minorCm  Bb2
up-on redemption day

Verse 5:
  C minorCm     F minorFm
How suddenly a baby cried
  Eb MajorEb        Bb majorBb
and all forever chang-ed
    C minorCm       F minorFm
Through history soul by soul have come
  Eb MajorEb    F minorFm   C minorCm
to find His healing grace
  G minorGm   C minorCm    F minorFm    Eb MajorEb
He filled my troubl-ed heart with peace,
   C minorCm       G minorGm
with hope of endless worth
  F minorFm         C minorCm
My voice will join the song of praise
   DmDm       C minorCm  Bb2
that tells Messiah’s birth