While You Were Sleeping

Oh little (Csus)town of (Dm)Bethlehem, looks like (Bb)another silent (F)night.

(F)Above your deep and dreamless sleep,

a giant star lights up the sky.

(F)And while you're lying in the dark,

there (Bb)shines an everlasting light,

(F)for the King has left His (Dm)throne,

and is (Bb)sleeping in a manger tonight,

(C)tonight.

(F)Oh Bethlehem, what you have missed while you were sleeping,

for God became a (Csus)man and (C)stepped (Dm)into your world today.

(F)Oh Bethlehem, you (C)will go down in history

as a (F)city with no room (C)for its (Dm)King.

(Bb)While you were sleeping.

(Bb)While you were sleeping.

(F)Oh little (Csus)town of (C)Jerusalem, looks like (Bb)another silent (F)night.

(Bb)The (F)Father gave His only Son;

the (Dm)Way, the Truth, the Life had come.

But there (F)was no room for Him (C)in the (Dm)world He came to save.

(F)United (Csus)States of (C)America, looks like (Bb)another silent (F)night,

(F)as we're sung to sleep by (C)philosophies that save the trees and kill the children.

(F)And while we're lying in the dark,

there's a (Bb)shout heard 'cross the eastern sky,

(F)for the Bridegroom has (Dm)returned and has (Bb)carried His bride away in the night,

(C)in the (Dm)night.

(F)Amerrica, what will we miss while we are sleeping?

Will Jesus come (Csus)again and (C)leave us (Dm)slumb'ring where we lay?

(F)America, will (C)we go down in history

as a (F)nation with no room (C)for its (Dm)King?

(Bb)Will we be sleeping?

(Bb)Will we be sleeping?

(F)United (Csus)States of (C)America, looks like (Bb)another silent (F)night.