While You Were Sleeping Chords / Audio (Transposable):
Intro
F Csus C Dm7 Bb F Csus C Dm7 Bbsus2
Verse 1
F Csus C Dm
Oh, little town of Bethlehem,
Bb F Csus C Dm Bb
Looks like another silent night.
F Csus C Dm
Above your deep and dreamless sleep,
Bb F Csus C Dm Bb
A giant star lights up the sky.
F Csus C Dm
And while you're lying in the dark,
Bb F Csus C Dm Bb
There shines an everlasting light.
F Csus C Dm
For the King has left His throne,
Bb F Csus C Dm Bb
And is sleeping in a manger tonight, tonight.
Chorus 1
F Csus C Dm
Oh Bethlehem what you have missed,
Bb
While you were sleeping.
F Csus
For God became a man,
C Dm Bb
And stepped into your world today.
F Csus C Dm Bb
Oh, Bethlehem you will go down in history,
F Csus C Dm
As a city with no room for its King,
Bb F Csus C Dm7
While you were sleeping,
Bb F Csus C Dm7 Bb
While you were sleeping.
Verse 2
F Csus C Dm
Oh little town of Jerusalem,
Bb F Csus C Dm Bb
Looks like another silent night.
F Csus C
The Father gave His only Son,
Dm Bb
The Way, the Truth, the Life had come.
F Csus C
But there was no room for Him
Dm Bb
In the world He came to save.
Chorus 2
F Csus C Dm
Jerusalem what you have missed,
Bb
While you were sleeping.
F Csus
The Savior of the world
C Dm Bb
Is dying on a cross today.
F Csus C Dm Bb
Jerusalem you will go down in history,
F Csus C Dm
As a city with no room for its King.
Bb F Csus C Dm7
While you were sleeping,
Bb F Csus C Dm7 Bbsus2
While you were sleeping.
Verse 3
F Csus C Dm
United States of America,
Bb F Csus C Dm Bb
Looks like another silent night.
F Csus C Dm
As we're sound asleep by philosophies,
Bb F Csus C Dm
That save the trees and kill the children.
Bb F Csus C Dm
And while we're lying in the dark,
Bb F Csus C Dm
There's a shout heard cross the eastern sky.
Bb F Csus C Dm
For the Bridegroom has returned,
Bb F
And has carried His bride away
Csus C Dm Bb
In the night, in the night.
Chorus 3
F Csus C Dm Bb
America what will we miss, while we are sleeping?
F Csus
Will Jesus come again,
C Dm Bb
And leave us slumbering where we lay?
F Csus C Dm Bb
America will we go down in history,
F Csus C Dm
As a nation with no room for its King?
Bb F Csus C Dm7
Will we be sleeping?
Bb F Csus C Dm Bbsus2 F
Will we be sleeping?
Ending
F Csus C Dm
United States of America,
Bb F Csus C Dm Bb
Looks like another silent night.
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