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How Far Is It To Bethlehem by Christmas Songs

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✟ Intro: 

G C Em A D G C D G



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

✟ Verse:
G              C
Can we see the little Child?
    Em A     D
    Is He within?
   G           C
If we lift the wooden latch
D         G
    May we go in?

✟ Interlude: 
F Em F Am F D G

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

✟ Verse:
Em              Bm7
If we touch His tiny hand
C        Am    D
    Will He awake?
G                  C
Will He know we've come so far
    D            G
    Just for His sake?

✟ Chorus: 
F            Em
How far, how far
    F          Am
How far to Bethlehem
   F             D   G
How far is it to Bethlehem

✟ Verse:
G                C
Great kings have precious gifts
Am     Em   D
    And we have naught;
G                 C
Little smiles and little tears
        D           G
    Are all we have brought.

✟ Verse:
G             C
For all weary children
   Am     Em   D
   Heaven must weep;
Bm       G   C
Here, on His bed of straw
D                G
    Sleep, children, sleep.

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

✟ Outro: 
F            Em
How far, how far
    F          Am
How far to Bethlehem
   F             D   G
How far is it to Bethlehem

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