Once In Royal David’s City Chords

 
Verse 1

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Once in royal David's city stood 

A lowly cattle shed where a mother laid her baby

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In a manger for His bed, Mary was that 

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Mother mild, Jesus Christ her little Child



Verse 2

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He came down to earth from heaven,

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Who is God and Lord of all,

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And his shelter was a stable,

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And his cradle was a stall

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With the poor and mean and lowly,

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Lived on earth our Saviour holy.



Verse 3

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And our eyes at last shall see Him,

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Through His own redeeming love;

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For that Child, so dear and gentle,

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Is our Lord in heaven above;

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And He leads His children on,

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To the place where He is gone.



Verse 4

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Not in that poor lowly stable,

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With the oxen standing by,

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We shall see Him, but in heaven,

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Set at God's right hand on high;

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When like stars His children crowned,

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All in white shall wait around.

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When like stars His children crowned,

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All in white shall wait around.



Chorus

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And You You are You are God. You are God, God, God