{"id":9947,"date":"2025-12-01T07:09:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9947"},"modified":"2025-12-01T07:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:09:18","slug":"early-christmas-morn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9947","title":{"rendered":"Early Christmas Morn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Early_Christmas_Morn.png\" width=\"900\/\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"audio_link\">mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Early_Christmas_Morn.mp3\"><br \/>\nEarly Christmas Morn &#8211; Click To Play  <\/a><\/div>\n<p>I wrote this with Mike Settle in 1961. We shared an apartment in Greenwich Village at the time. This was the first song I ever wrote. The original melody and chords were a bit different but the lyrics are the same.<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n<p>EARLY CHRISTMAS MORN<\/p>\n<p>[Em] For seven nights I [D] traveled far<br \/>\n[C] Till I reached that [B7]place<br \/>\n[Em] In the quiet [D] of the night I saw<br \/>\n [C] The little [B7] Baby\u2019s [Em]face<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<br \/>\n[G] Hallelujah [D] Christ was born<br \/>\n[C] Early Christmas [B7] morn<br \/>\n[G] Hallelujah [D] Christ was born<br \/>\n[C] Early [B] Christmas [Em] morn<\/p>\n<p>My journey there was long and hard<br \/>\nI faced the night so cold<br \/>\nBut His manger was warm and bright<br \/>\nA beauty to behold<\/p>\n<p>Hallelujah Christ was born<br \/>\nEarly Christmas morn<br \/>\n[G] Hallelujah [D] Christ was born<br \/>\n[C] Early [B] Christmas [Em] morn<\/p>\n<p>They gave Him gifts of myrrh and gold<br \/>\nAnd I could offer none<br \/>\nBut He raised His head and smiled at me<br \/>\nWith the beauty of the sun<\/p>\n<p>Hallelujah Christ was born<br \/>\nEarly Christmas morn<br \/>\n[G] Hallelujah [D] Christ was born<br \/>\n[C] Early [B] Christmas [Em] morn<\/p>\n<p>And then He told me in His smile<br \/>\nHe raised His hands so small<br \/>\nThat mine had been the gift of love<br \/>\nThe fairest of them all<\/p>\n<p>Hallelujah Christ was born<br \/>\nEarly Christmas morn<br \/>\n[G] Hallelujah [D] Christ was born<br \/>\n[C] Early [B] Christmas [Em] morn<br \/>\nX2\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mp3: Early Christmas Morn &#8211; Click To Play I wrote this with Mike Settle in 1961. We shared an apartment in Greenwich Village at the time. This was the first song I ever wrote. The original melody and chords were a bit different but the lyrics are the same. Merry Christmas! EARLY CHRISTMAS MORN [Em] &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=9947\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Early Christmas Morn&#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-9947","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\/9947","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=9947"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9952,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9947\/revisions\/9952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}