🎸 How Suddenly A Baby Cries chords by Keith & Kristyn Getty

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Verse 1:
  Cm     Fm
How suddenly a baby cries
  Eb     Bb
and all forever change
  Cm         Fm
As shepherds leave the angel song
  Eb    Fm  Cm
to find this holy place
   Gm   Cm    Fm    Eb
Where in her young and trembling arms
 Cm        Gm
a virgin holds her Son
  Fm        Cm
And in this Child of breath divine
  Dm        Cm  Bb2
our Light has finally come

Verse 2:
  Cm       Fm
She ponders how the Magi kneel
  Eb     Bb
be-fore Emmanu-el
   Cm        Fm
With gold and frankin-cense and myrrh
     Eb  Fm    Cm
Christ’s sacri-fice they tell
  Gm     Cm    Fm   Eb
A dream would help them flee a king
   Cm           Gm
whose pride would cruelly des-troy
  Fm         Cm
As mothers weep God’s mercy meets
  Dm       Cm  Bb2
the hunger for His joy


Verse 3:
   Cm        Fm
What wonder still that Anna filled
   Eb           Bb
with praise should bless the Lord
  Cm       Fm
Her aging eyes now looking on
  Eb   Fm   Cm
the Savior of the world
  Gm    Cm   Fm     Eb
For night and day her prayers had filled
  Cm      Gm
the temple of our God
  Fm          Cm
Her heart could tell His saving hand
   Dm       Cm  Bb2
with-in this gift of love

Verse 4:
   Cm       Fm
Hear Simeon who had waited long
   Eb        Bb
draw near to hold the child
  Cm        Fm
To speak of Him who would reveal
  Eb  Fm     Cm
the many thoughts we hide
   Gm      Cm   Fm    Eb
That hearts would rise to know His grace
  Cm     Gm
but many fall a-way
 Fm           Cm
A sword would pierce His mother’s soul
  Dm      Cm  Bb2
up-on redemption day

Verse 5:
  Cm     Fm
How suddenly a baby cried
  Eb        Bb
and all forever chang-ed
    Cm       Fm
Through history soul by soul have come
  Eb    Fm   Cm
to find His healing grace
  Gm   Cm    Fm    Eb
He filled my troubl-ed heart with peace,
   Cm       Gm
with hope of endless worth
  Fm         Cm
My voice will join the song of praise
   Dm       Cm  Bb2
that tells Messiah’s birth