How Suddenly A Baby Cries chords by Keith & Kristyn Getty

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Verse 1:
    Cm         Fm
How suddenly a baby cries
    Eb          Bb
and all forever change
   Cm                  Fm
As shepherds leave the angel song
   Eb        Fm   Cm
to find this holy place
      Gm     Cm        Fm        Eb
Where in her young and trembling arms
  Cm               Gm
a virgin holds her Son
    Fm               Cm
And in this Child of breath divine
    Dm                Cm   Bb2
our Light has finally come

Verse 2:
    Cm              Fm
She ponders how the Magi kneel
   Eb          Bb
be-fore Emmanu-el
     Cm               Fm
With gold and frankin-cense and myrrh
         Eb    Fm        Cm
Christ’s sacri-fice they tell
   Gm         Cm        Fm     Eb
A dream would help them flee a king
      Cm                      Gm
whose pride would cruelly des-troy
   Fm                 Cm
As mothers weep God’s mercy meets
    Dm             Cm   Bb2
the hunger for His joy


Verse 3:
     Cm                Fm
What wonder still that Anna filled
     Eb                      Bb
with praise should bless the Lord
    Cm             Fm
Her aging eyes now looking on
    Eb     Fm     Cm
the Savior of the world
    Gm        Cm      Fm          Eb
For night and day her prayers had filled
    Cm            Gm
the temple of our God
    Fm                   Cm
Her heart could tell His saving hand
     Dm              Cm   Bb2
with-in this gift of love

Verse 4:
     Cm             Fm
Hear Simeon who had waited long
     Eb               Bb
draw near to hold the child
   Cm               Fm
To speak of Him who would reveal
    Eb   Fm          Cm
the many thoughts we hide
     Gm           Cm      Fm       Eb
That hearts would rise to know His grace
    Cm          Gm
but many fall a-way
  Fm                     Cm
A sword would pierce His mother’s soul
   Dm            Cm   Bb2
up-on redemption day

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