{"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":1782580,"song":"Noel Christmas Eve 1913","artist":"John Denver","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/1782580-noel-christmas-eve-1913-chords-by-john-denver/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1782580?type=chord","rating":4.83212,"votes":34,"content":"NOEL: CHRISTMAS EVE, 1913 Music & Lyrics by Bridges and Holdridge Sung\r\nby John Denver on A Christmas Together (1979)\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                \r\nA frosty Christmas eve, when the stars were shining[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]Em[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nI traveled forth alone, where westward falls the hill[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd for many, many a village, in the darkness of the valley[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nDistant music reached me, peals of bells were ringing.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                                             \r\nThen sped my thoughts to olden times, to that first of Christmases[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]Em[/ch]                                [ch]C[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen shepherds who were watching, heard music in the fields[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]D[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd they sat there and they marveled, and they knew they could not tell[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                       [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhether it were angels, or the bright stars a-singing[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]                             \r\nBut to me heard afar, it was starry music[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]Em[/ch]                         [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe singing of the angels, the comfort of our Lord[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWords of old that come a traveling, by the riches of the times[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I softly listened, as I stood upon the hill[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I softly listened, as I stood upon the hill[/tab]","plain_text":"NOEL: CHRISTMAS EVE, 1913 Music & Lyrics by Bridges and Holdridge Sung\nby John Denver on A Christmas Together (1979)","chords":["A","G","Em","C","D"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"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]}}}