Cradle In Bethlehem Cifras

Cradle In Bethlehem
Sleeping at Last 2012 (Alfred Bryan and Larry Stock 1952)
 
Capo II for original key, ¾ time, each chord is a bar (3 beats), unless enclosed in || to denote one bar
 
 
[Verse 1]
     C         C        G    C
Sing sweet and low your lullaby
     F      Dm   G  G
Till angels say amen
  C        F        G  Am   Am
A mother tonight is rocking
  C     C         G   G
A cradle in Bethlehem
 
 
[Verse 2]
      C        C      G           C
While wise men follow through the dark
  F         Dm      G    G
A star that beckons them
  C        F        G  Am   Am
A mother tonight is rocking
  C         G     C    C
A cradle in Bethlehem
 
 
[Bridge]
  G      G           F    C
A little child shall lead them
    G         G      C   C
The prophets said of old
    Am        B7      Em   Em
And storm and tempest heed them
  Em      C       D      D
Until the bell is tolled
 
 
[Verse 3]
     C         C        G    C
Sing sweet and low your lullaby
     F      Dm   G  G
Till angels say amen
  C        F        G  Am
A mother tonight is rocking
  C         G     C  |C F C|
A cradle in Bethlehem
 
 
[Outro]
C C G C F Dm G G
 
  C        F        G  Am
A mother tonight is rocking
  C         G     C  C
A cradle in Bethlehem
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