Noel Christmas Eve 1913(Chords)

	        NOEL: CHRISTMAS EVE, 1913 Music & Lyrics by Bridges and Holdridge Sung 
by John Denver on A Christmas Together (1979)   

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A frosty Christmas eve, when the stars where shining      
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I traveled forth alone, where westward falls the hill          
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And for many, many a village, in the darkness of the valley          
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Distant music reached me, peals of bells were ringing.    


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Then spread my thoughts to olden times, to that first of Christmases        
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When shepherds who were watching, heard music in the fields            
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And they sat there and they marveled, and they knew they could not tell          
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Whether it were angels, or the bright stars a-singing    


G  
But to me heard a far, it was starry music       
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The singing of the angels, the comfort of our lord           
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Words of old that come a traveling, by the riches of the times         
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And I softly listened, as i stood upon the hill                               
C              G  
And I softly listened, as i stood upon the hill
	        

Written by Robert Bridges/Lee Holdridge