Sentient Cement Coverpile - Christmas

Christmas - Joy To The World

D   G6      D/F# G   D    A D            G          A           Bm G G D
Joy to the world the lord is come, let earth receive her king
      D G   D           D     G   D
Let every heart prepare him room
       D                          D           A4               A       0 A
And heaven and nature sing and heaven and nature sing
       /D D    G    D        G   D A    D
And heaven and heaven and nature sing

D   G6      D/F# G D A   D            G            A          Bm G G D
Joy to the earth the savior reigns, let men their songs employ
          D      G    D        D       D     G    D
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
     D                        D      A4        A           0 A
Repeat the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy
     /D D G D     G   D    A    D
Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy

D   G6        D/F# G D A      D            G           A        Bm G G D
No more let sins and sorrows grow nor thorns infest the ground
      D       G D      D    D   G     D
He comes to make his blessings flow
      D                   D              A4     A         0 A
Far as the curse is found, far as the curse is found
       /D D G D G   D     A D
Far as . . . far as the curse is found

D   G6         D/F# G     D     A    D              G              A         Bm G G D
He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove
       D G   D D   D G      D
The glories of his righteousness
       D                      D          A4          A     0 A
And wonders of his love and wonders of his love
       /D D G   D    G     D A D
And wonders wonders of his love

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Nobody typically does that dark
and scary 3rd verse.

The original tune is called Antioch,
Most likely borrowed from Handel.

Words based on Psalm 98, 96:11-12
and Genesis 3:17-18, in the Bible.

First published by Isaac Watts 1719.