title: Mary’s Little Boy Child
key: Christmas
harp type: Chromatic
genre: C
skill: Any

MARY’S LITTLE BOY CHILD chrom
By: Jester Hairston
Harry Belafonte
Key: C
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Long time a-go in Beth-le-hem,
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so the Ho-ly Bi-ble say
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Mar-y`s Boy Child, Je-sus Christ
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was born on Christ-mas Day
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Hark now hear the an-gels sing,
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“New Kings born to-day
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And man will live for-ev-er more,
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Be-cause of Christ-mas Day”
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While shep-herds watched
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Their flocks by night
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They saw a bright new shin-ing star
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And heard a choir from heav-en sing
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The mu-sic came from a-far
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Hark now hear the an-gels sing,
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“New Kings born to-day
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And man will live for-ev-er more,
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Be-cause of Christ-mas Day”
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Now Jo-seph and his wife Mar-y
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Came to Beth-le-hem that night
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They found no place to bear her Child
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Not a sin-gle room was in sight
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By and by they found a lit-tle nook
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In a sta-ble all for-lorn
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And in a man-ger cold and dark
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Mar-y’s lit-tle Boy Child was born
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Trum-pets sound and an-gels sing,
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Lis-ten to what they say,
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That man will live for-ev-er more
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Be-cause of Christ-mas Day