{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":40237,"song":"Good King Wenceslas","artist":"Misc Christmas","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11539394-good-king-wenceslas-chords-by-misc-christmas/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/40237?type=chord","rating":4.6193,"votes":207,"content":"GOOD KING WENCESLAS  (Traditional)\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nGood King Wenceslas looked out On the Feast of Stephen[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhen the snow lay round about deep and crisp and even[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBrightly shone the moon that night though the frost was cruel[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]Cadd9[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhen a poor man came in sight gathering winter fu   -    el[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Hither, page, and stand by me If thou know'st it, telling,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYonder peasant, who is he? where and what his dwelling?\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Sire, he lives a good league hence, underneath the mountain;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nRight against the forest fence, by Saint Agnes' foun  -    tain.\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Bring me flesh, and bring me wine bring me pine logs hither;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThou and I will see him dine, when we bear them thither.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nPage and monarch, forth they went, forth they went together;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]  [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThrough the rude wind's wild lament and the bitter wea  -   ther.[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]          [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Sire, the night is darker now, and the wind blows stronger;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]\r\nFails my heart, I know not how, I can go no longer.\"[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\"Mark my footsteps, my good page; tread thou in them boldly.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThou shalt find the winter's rage, freeze thy blood less cold  -   ly.\"[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nIn his master's steps he trod, where the snow lay dinted.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nHeat was in the very sod which the Saint had printed.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]Em[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nTherefore, Christian men, be sure, wealth or rank pos-sessing;[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]Cadd9[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nYe who will now bless the poor, shall yourselves find bles  -   sing.[/tab]\r\n\r\n(Finish with the 1st verse)","plain_text":"GOOD KING WENCESLAS  (Traditional)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(Finish with the 1st verse)","chords":["G","Em","C","Cadd9"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Cadd9":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,1,0,3,0],"frets":[-1,3,2,0,3,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}