{"id":7503,"date":"2012-12-01T06:53:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T10:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7503"},"modified":"2019-11-08T09:27:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T13:27:26","slug":"we-three-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7503","title":{"rendered":"We Three Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/3Kings.jpg\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/3Kings.mp3\">We Three Kings &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nThis is a Christmas carol I&#8217;ve never tried to play before. As I went through the chords, it struck me they were very much like the patterns folk singer Bob Gibson favored. A good example is his version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/bobgibsonbobcamp\/music\/songs\/wayfaring-stranger-lp-version-30800600\">&#8220;Wayfaring Stranger&#8221;<\/a> I recorded for the Folk Den back in May of 1997. I&#8217;ve always loved songs that progress from Em to G and C. The sound of a minor chord rising to a major chord is uplifting!.<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n<strong>3\/4 TIME CAPO ON THIRD FRET<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Em] We three kings of [D] Orient [Em] are<br \/>\nBearing gifts we [D] traveled so [Em] far<br \/>\n[G] Field and [D] fountain, [G] moor and [C] mountain<br \/>\n[D] Following yonder [Em] star<\/p>\n<p>Born a King on Bethlehem&#8217;s plain<br \/>\nGold I bring to crown Him again<br \/>\nKing forever, ceasing never<br \/>\nOver us all to reign<\/p>\n<p>[G] O Star of wonder, [C] star of [G] night<br \/>\nStar with royal [C] beauty [G] bright<br \/>\n[G] Westward [D] leading, [C] still [D] proceeding<br \/>\n[G] Guide us to Thy [C] perfect [G] light<\/p>\n<p>Frankincense to offer have I<br \/>\nIncense owns a Deity nigh<br \/>\nPrayer and praising, all men raising<br \/>\nWorship Him, God most high<\/p>\n<p>Glorious now behold Him arise<br \/>\nKing and God and Sacrifice<br \/>\nAlleluia, Alleluia<br \/>\nEarth to heav&#8217;n replies<\/p>\n<p>Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume<br \/>\nBreathes of life of gathering gloom<br \/>\nSorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying<br \/>\nSealed in the stone-cold tomb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: We Three Kings &#8211; Click To Play This is a Christmas carol I&#8217;ve never tried to play before. As I went through the chords, it struck me they were very much like the patterns folk singer Bob Gibson favored. A good example is his version of &#8220;Wayfaring Stranger&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7503\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;We Three Kings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seasonal","category-spiritual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7503"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8826,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503\/revisions\/8826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}