I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]I heard the bells on [A]Christmas day
Their [D]old fa[A]mili[Bm]ar c[Asus4]arols play
And [D]wild and sweet their
[F#]words [Bm]repeat
[D]Peace on the earth [A]good will [D]to men

[Verse 2]
[D]
And in [A]despair I bowed my head
[D]There is no peace on ear[A]th I said
[D]For hate is str[F#]ong and mocks the song
[Bm]Of p[Bb]eace [D]on earth,
[A]good will to men
[D]

[Verse 3]
Then answered those [A]bells, loud and deep
[D]God is not dea[A]d, nor does he sleep
The [D]wrong shall fail, and the [F#]right pre[Bm]vail
[D]With peace on earth,
good [A]will [D]to men

[Verse 4]
[D]Ya know, I like the way folks [A]used to do
[D]Back when cattle was plenty
[A]and folks was few
[D]Everybody would gather
from far and [F#]near[Bm]
[Bb]An d b[D]arbecue'em a big fat steer
[A]The kids they liked sta[D]ying' awake because well,
They reckon they might catch Santa Claus
In the morning they'd come
racing down to see
[A]What Santa'd gone and left
underneath [D]that tree
It was Christ[A]mas back in
those days
[D]For the rich and for the [F#]poor[Bm]
[Bb]And every gran[D]dchild
had an open [A]door
[D]And the old cowboy who came
on the company horse
Was treated the same as the owner
or [A]the boss
You see nobody seemed to have a [D]care
He was in among friends or he wasn't there
[A]Of course some [D]have new boots
they sure would admire
As they warmed [F#]their feet
in front [Bm]of the fire[Bb]
[D]And the women folk they had
new clothes [A]too[D]
But not like the women of Austin,
TX did
Sometimes right [A]in the middle of the party
An old [D]stranger would come
riding [A]in
We always wondered who he
was and [D]where he'd been
[F#]And as the years rolled on and[Bm] on[Bb]
We'd [D]always wondered where that old stranger
with [A]the long beard had [D]gone
Well maybe it's like the book
of Corinthians
Where it says something in there
[A]Sometimes you get visited by an angel
[D]and you're not even awa[A]re
[D]So I still recall that Christmas night
[F#]The tops of the mountain
[Bm]s capped [Bb]with white
[D]And the stars so bright they seemed ablaze
[A]As the foothills were swimming
[D]in a silver haze
Now those good ol' days are mostly tasked [A]and
[D]goneTime and the world and[A] change goes on
[D]And I reckon we can't do things quite
like we used to [F#]do[Bm][Bbaug][D]
Back when cattle was plenty
in [A]Texas[D]

[Outro 1]
And shopping malls and condos were few
[D]