Tonart: D major•
Verse 1
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D
The Lord is come!
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a man who was born in an
obscure village,
D
the child of a simple peasant
woman.
He grew up in another obscure
village.
Until he was thirty years of age,
he worked as a carpenter,
and then for three years he
was a traveling preacher.
He never wrote a book.
He never held political office.
He never owned a home.
He never went to college.
D
He never set foot inside a big city.
He never traveled more than 200 miles
from the place of his birth.
A
D
And where he did go, he usually walked.
He never did one of the things
that one usually associates
with greatness.
A
He had no credentials but himself.
D
He had nothing to do with this world
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Em
ex cept through the supreme power
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D
A
of his divine manhood.
D
While still a young man,
the tide of popular opinion
turned against him.
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Most of his friends ran away.
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Fm
One of them denied him.
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D
One of them even betrayed him
and turned him over to his
enemies.
He went through the mockery of a trial
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and was nailed to a wooden cross
Db
between two thieves.
Fm
And even while he was dying,
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Bbm
his executioners gambled for the only piece of
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property he had in this world,
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and that was his robe, his purple robe.
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When he was dead,
he was taken down from the cross
and laid in a borrowed grave
provided by compassionate
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friends.
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Nineteen wide centuries
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have since come and gone,
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Fm
an d today he is the centerpiece
Eb
the leader in the column of human progress.
I think I am well within the mark
when I say that all of
the armies that ever marched,
all of the navies that ever
sailed the seven seas,
all of the legislative bodies that ever sat
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Bbm
and all of the kings that ever reigned,
Eb
have not affected the
life of man on this earth,
so powerfully, as that one solitary life.
Here was a man.
Joy to the world!
Bb
Eb
The Lord is come!
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