{"id":8203,"date":"2017-12-01T06:03:34","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T10:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8203"},"modified":"2019-11-08T10:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T14:42:39","slug":"o-little-town-of-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8203","title":{"rendered":"O Little Town Of Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Bethlehem.png\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/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\/Bethlehem.mp3\"> O Little Town Of Bethlehem &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nThe manuscript above is the author, Phillips Brooks&#8217; original first stanza. It was intended to be a short lived sunday school song. He asked his organist Lewis Redner to compose the melody and Redner procrastinated until the evening before it was due. He went to sleep and was awakened in the middle of the night by what he described as an &#8220;angel-strain&#8221; whispering in his ear. Seizing a piece of music paper he jotted down the tune and presented it in the morning for the Sunday service.<\/p>\n<p>I played this on my new Martin DX1RAE<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n<p>     Capo on 3rd fret<\/p>\n<p>[C] O little town of [Dm] Bethlehem<br \/>\n[C] How still we [G7] see thee [C] lie<br \/>\nAbove thy deep and [A7] dreamless [Dm] sleep<br \/>\nThe [C] silent [G7] stars [C] go by<\/p>\n<p>Yet in the [Dm] dark streets [E7] shineth<br \/>\nThe [Am] ever [Em] lasting [E7] light<br \/>\n[C] The hopes and fears of [Dm] all the years<br \/>\n[C] Are met in [G7] thee [C] tonight<\/p>\n<p>[C] For Christ is born of [Dm] Mary<br \/>\n[C] And gathered [G7] all [C] above<br \/>\nWhile  mortals [A7] sleep the [Dm] angels keep<br \/>\n[C] Their watch of [G7] wondering [C] love<\/p>\n<p>Yet in the [Dm] dark streets [E7] shineth<br \/>\nThe [Am] ever [Em] lasting [E7] light<br \/>\n[C] The hopes and fears of [Dm] all the years<br \/>\n[C] Are met in [G7] thee [C] tonight<\/p>\n<p>[C] O morning stars [Dm] together<br \/>\n[C] Proclaim the [G7] holy [C] birth<br \/>\nAnd praises [A7] sing to [Dm] God the King<br \/>\n[C] And peace to [G7] men on [C] earth<\/p>\n<p>Yet in the [Dm] dark streets [E7] shineth<br \/>\nThe [Am] ever [Em] lasting [E7] light<br \/>\n[C] The hopes and fears of [Dm] all the years<br \/>\n[C] Are met in [G7] thee [C] tonight<\/p>\n<p>[C] O little town of [Dm] Bethlehem<br \/>\n[C] How still we [G7] see thee [C] lie<br \/>\nAbove thy deep and [A7] dreamless [Dm] sleep<br \/>\nThe [C] silent [G7] stars [C] go by<\/p>\n<p>Yet in the [Dm] dark streets [E7] shineth<br \/>\nThe [Am] ever [Em] lasting [E7] light<br \/>\n[C] The hopes and fears of [Dm] all the years<br \/>\n[C] Are met in [G7] thee [C] tonight<\/p>\n<p>[C] The hopes and fears of [Dm] all the years<br \/>\n[C] Are met in [G7] thee [C] tonight<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: O Little Town Of Bethlehem &#8211; Click To Play The manuscript above is the author, Phillips Brooks&#8217; original first stanza. It was intended to be a short lived sunday school song. He asked his organist Lewis Redner to compose the melody and Redner procrastinated until the evening before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8203\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;O Little Town Of Bethlehem&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seasonal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203","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=8203"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8940,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8203\/revisions\/8940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}