Chords for The Gift (The very first nightingale Christmas song)

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_ _ [Gm] _ _ A poor orphaned girl [Bb] named Maria _ [Gm] _ _ [Bb] Was walking to market one [F] day
[Eb] _ She stopped for to rest by the _ roadside _ Where a bird with a broken [Bb] wing _ lay
A few moments passed since she saw [Gm] it _ [Bb] Forest feathers were covered [F] with _ sand
_ But soon Queen wrapped it with traveling _ _ In the warmth of [Eb] Maria's [Bb] small hand
_ [Eb] _ [Bb] _ [Eb] _
Happily gave her last face _ -off [Bb] For a cage made of brushes and twine
[Cm] She [Bb] _ [Eb]
fed it loose corn from the market _ _ And [Bb]
watched it grow stronger with [F] _
[Gm] time
[F] _ _ [Bb] Now the Christmas Eve service was coming _ [Gm] _ And [Bb] the church shone with tinsel [F] and light
_ [A] _ And [F]
all of the town folk brought presents [Am] _ [Eb] _ [F] To lay by the manger [Bb] that _ night
_ There were diamonds, [Gm] some gems and [Bb] some _ _ [Gm] perfumes [Bb] And packages fit for [F] a king
_ _ But for one [Eb] ragged bird [Bb] in a small _ [Eb] cage _ [F]
Maria had nothing [Bb] to bring
_ She _ [Eb] _
waited till just before midnight _ _ [Bb] So no one [F] would see her [Bb] go _ in
_ [Eb] The crying she knelt by the manger _ _ For [Bb] a gift was unworthy [F] of _ him
_ [Bb] Then a voice [Gm] spoke, she wept through [Bb] the _ [Gm] darkness _ _ [Bb]
Maria, what brings you to _ [F] me?
_ It's the [Bb] bird in the [A] cage, [Bb] is your offering? _ _ _ _
[Am] Open the [F] door, let [Bb] me see
[Eb] _ [Bb] _ Then she trembled, [Gm] she did [Bb] as he asked her [Gm] _ _ [Bb] And out of the cage the [F] bird flew _ _ _ _
Soaring up into the _ _ rafters On a wing that any elk could [Bb] have knew
_ _ _ [Eb] And just then _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] the little [F] bird started [Bb] to sing _ [Cm] [Bb] A [Eb]
song that words could recite
_ _ _ [Bb] _ For beauty was fit for a king [Eb] _ _ [Bb] Now Maria felt blessed just to listen
[Gm] _ For [Bb] that cascade of notes sweet [F] and _ long As her offering was lifted to heaven
_ _ By the very _ first _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _
nightingale _ _ song _
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