While You Were Sleeping

Capo 1st fret

E Bsus C#m7 A

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Little town of Bethlehem 
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Looks like another silent night
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Above your deep and dreamless sleep
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A giant star lights up the sky
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And while you’re lying in the dark
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There shines an everlasting light
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For the king has left His throne 
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And He’s sleeping in a manger tonight...tonight

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Oh Bethlehem what you’ve missed while you were sleeping
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For God became a man and stepped into your world today
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Oh Bethlehem you will go down in history
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As a city with no room for its king
               E   Bsus C#m7 A                E   Bsus C#m7 A
While you were sleeping        While you were sleeping

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Little town of Jerusalem
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Looks like another silent night
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The Father gave His only Son
    C#m7                A
The Way, the Truth, the Life had come
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But there was no room for Him
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In the world He came to save

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Jerusalem what you’ve missed while you were sleeping
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The savior of the world is dying on your cross today
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Jerusalem you will go down in history
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As a city with no room for its king
               E   Bsus C#m7 A                E   Bsus C#m7 A
While you were sleeping        While you were sleeping

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United States of America
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Looks like another silent night
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As we’re sung to sleep by philosophies
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That save the trees and kill the children
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And while we’re lying in the dark
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There’s a shout heard cross the eastern sky
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For the Bridegroom has returned
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And He’s carried His bride away in the night...in the night

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America what will we miss while we are sleeping
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Will Jesus come again and leave us slumbering where we lay
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America will we go down in history
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As a nation with no room for its king
           E   Bsus C#m7 A            E   Bsus C#m7 A
Will we be sleeping        Will we be sleeping

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United States of America
            A             E    Bsus C#m7 A 
Looks like another silent night

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