While You Were Sleeping Chords by Casting Crowns
Tempo:
75.95 bpm
Chords used:
F
Bb
C
Dm
E
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Key:
F
Bb
C
Dm
E
F
Bb
C
[F] [C] [Dm] [Bb] .
[C] [F] [Dm] [Bb] .
[F] [C] [Dm] [Bb] .
[F] [C] [Dm] [Bb] .
[F] A little [C] town of [Dm] Bethlehem [Bb] looks like another [F] silent night.
[C] [Dm] .
[Bb] [F] Above your [C] deep and [Dm] dreamless sleep, a [Bb] giant star lights [F] up the sky.
[C] [Dm] .
[Bb] [F] And [C] while you're lying [Dm] in the dark, [Bb] there shines an [F] everlasting light.
[C] [Dm] .
[Bb] [F] [C] For the king has [Dm] left his throne [Bb] and is sleeping [F] in a manger [C] tonight.
[Dm] Tonight.
[Bb] [F] Oh [C] Bethlehem, would [Dm] you have missed while you [Bb] were sleeping?.
[F] Or God became a [C] man and [Dm] stepped into your [Bb] world today?.
[F] Oh [C] Bethlehem, you [Dm] will go down in [Bb] history.
[F] As a city [C] with no room [Dm] for its king.
[Bb] While [F] you were sleeping.
[C] [Dm] .
[Bb] While [F] you were sleeping.
[C] [Dm] .
[Bb] [F] Mary [C] shivers [Dm] in the cold, [Bb] trying to keep the [F] Savior warm.
[C] .
[Dm] [E] [Bb] [F] Born [C] among the [Dm] animals, wrapped in [Bb] dirty rags.
[F] Because there was no [C] room for him [Dm] in the world he [Bb] came to save.
[F] Oh [C] Bethlehem, would [Dm] you have missed while you [Bb] were sleeping?.
[F] Or God [C] became a man and [Dm] stepped into your [Bb] world today?.
[F] Oh [C] Bethlehem, you [Dm] will go down in [Bb] history.
[F] As a city [C] with no room [Dm] for its king.
[Bb] While [F] you were sleeping.
[C] .
[Dm] [Bb] While [F] you were sleeping.
[C] .
[Dm] [Bb] [F] .
[C] United States of [F] America [Bb] looks like another [F] silent night.
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[C] [Dm] [Bb] [F] As we're [C] sung to sleep by [Dm] philosophies that [Bb] save the trees and [F] kill the children.
[C] And [Dm] [Bb] [F] .
[C] while we're lying [Dm] in the dark, [Bb] there's a shout [F] across the eastern sky.
[C] [Dm] [Bb] [F] .
[C] For the bridegroom has [F] returned [Bb] and has carried his [F] bride away in the night.
[Dm] In the night.
[Bb] [F] .
[C] America, what [Dm] will we miss while we [Bb] are sleeping?.
[F] Will Jesus [C] come again and [Dm] leave us slumbering where [Bb] we lay?.
[F] .
[C] America, will we [Dm] go down in [Bb] history.
[F] As a nation [C] with no room [Dm] for its king?.
[Bb] Or will we [F] be sleeping?.
[C] [Dm] [Bb] Will we [F] be sleeping?.
[Dm] United [Bb] .
[F] [C] States of [Dm] America [Bb] looks like another [F] silent night.
[C] [Dm] [Bb] .
.
[C] [F] [Dm] [Bb] .
[F] [C] [Dm] [Bb] .
[F] [C] [Dm] [Bb] .
[F] A little [C] town of [Dm] Bethlehem [Bb] looks like another [F] silent night.
[C] [Dm] .
[Bb] [F] Above your [C] deep and [Dm] dreamless sleep, a [Bb] giant star lights [F] up the sky.
[C] [Dm] .
[Bb] [F] And [C] while you're lying [Dm] in the dark, [Bb] there shines an [F] everlasting light.
[C] [Dm] .
[Bb] [F] [C] For the king has [Dm] left his throne [Bb] and is sleeping [F] in a manger [C] tonight.
[Dm] Tonight.
[Bb] [F] Oh [C] Bethlehem, would [Dm] you have missed while you [Bb] were sleeping?.
[F] Or God became a [C] man and [Dm] stepped into your [Bb] world today?.
[F] Oh [C] Bethlehem, you [Dm] will go down in [Bb] history.
[F] As a city [C] with no room [Dm] for its king.
[Bb] While [F] you were sleeping.
[C] [Dm] .
[Bb] While [F] you were sleeping.
[C] [Dm] .
[Bb] [F] Mary [C] shivers [Dm] in the cold, [Bb] trying to keep the [F] Savior warm.
[C] .
[Dm] [E] [Bb] [F] Born [C] among the [Dm] animals, wrapped in [Bb] dirty rags.
[F] Because there was no [C] room for him [Dm] in the world he [Bb] came to save.
[F] Oh [C] Bethlehem, would [Dm] you have missed while you [Bb] were sleeping?.
[F] Or God [C] became a man and [Dm] stepped into your [Bb] world today?.
[F] Oh [C] Bethlehem, you [Dm] will go down in [Bb] history.
[F] As a city [C] with no room [Dm] for its king.
[Bb] While [F] you were sleeping.
[C] .
[Dm] [Bb] While [F] you were sleeping.
[C] .
[Dm] [Bb] [F] .
[C] United States of [F] America [Bb] looks like another [F] silent night.
.
[C] [Dm] [Bb] [F] As we're [C] sung to sleep by [Dm] philosophies that [Bb] save the trees and [F] kill the children.
[C] And [Dm] [Bb] [F] .
[C] while we're lying [Dm] in the dark, [Bb] there's a shout [F] across the eastern sky.
[C] [Dm] [Bb] [F] .
[C] For the bridegroom has [F] returned [Bb] and has carried his [F] bride away in the night.
[Dm] In the night.
[Bb] [F] .
[C] America, what [Dm] will we miss while we [Bb] are sleeping?.
[F] Will Jesus [C] come again and [Dm] leave us slumbering where [Bb] we lay?.
[F] .
[C] America, will we [Dm] go down in [Bb] history.
[F] As a nation [C] with no room [Dm] for its king?.
[Bb] Or will we [F] be sleeping?.
[C] [Dm] [Bb] Will we [F] be sleeping?.
[Dm] United [Bb] .
[F] [C] States of [Dm] America [Bb] looks like another [F] silent night.
[C] [Dm] [Bb] .
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