How Far Is It To Bethlehem chords by Christmas Songs

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st

✟ Intro:

G+G C majorC E minorEm A augmentedA D MajorD G+G C majorC D MajorD G+G


✟ Verse:
G+G        C majorC
How far is it to Bethlehem?
  A minorAm    D MajorD
  Not very far.
G+G         C majorC
Shall we find the stable-room
  D MajorD    G+G
  Lit by a star?

✟ Verse:
G+G       C majorC
Can we see the little Child?
  E minorEm A augmentedA   D MajorD
  Is He within?
  G+G      C majorC
If we lift the wooden latch
D MajorD     G+G
  May we go in?

✟ Interlude:
FF E minorEm FF A minorAm FF D MajorD G+G

✟ Verse:
G+G         C majorC
May we stroke the creatures there —
  A minorAm     D MajorD
  Ox, ass, or sheep?
  G+G      C majorC
May we peep like them and see
  D MajorD   G+G
  Jesus asleep?

✟ Verse:
E minorEm       Bm7Bm7
If we touch His tiny hand
C majorC    A minorAm  D MajorD
  Will He awake?
G+G         C majorC
Will He know we've come so far
  D MajorD      G+G
  Just for His sake?

✟ Chorus:
FF      E minorEm
How far, how far
  FF     A minorAm
How far to Bethlehem
  FF       D MajorD  G+G
How far is it to Bethlehem

✟ Verse:
G+G        C majorC
Great kings have precious gifts
A minorAm   E minorEm  D MajorD
  And we have naught;
G+G         C majorC
Little smiles and little tears
    D MajorD      G+G
  Are all we have brought.

✟ Verse:
G+G       C majorC
For all weary children
  A minorAm   E minorEm  D MajorD
  Heaven must weep;
B minorBm    G+G  C majorC
Here, on His bed of straw
D MajorD        G+G
  Sleep, children, sleep.

✟ Verse:
G+G      C majorC
God, in His mother's arms
E minorEm  C majorC   D MajorD
  Babes in the byre
G+G       C majorC
Sleep, as they sleep who find
  D MajorD       G+G
  Their heart's desire.

✟ Outro:
FF      E minorEm
How far, how far
  FF     A minorAm
How far to Bethlehem
  FF       D MajorD  G+G
How far is it to Bethlehem

https://www.youtube.com/watch v=AF3YfQ2joZo
original lyrics by Frances Chesterton