Labor Of Love Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

D Dsus D

Verse

It was not a silent G5 night

There was blood on the ground(D Dsus4 D)

You could hear a woman G5 cry

in the alleyway that A night

on the streets of David's town(D Dsus4 D)

And the stable was not Bm clean,

and the cobblestones were F♯m cold.

And little Mary full of G5 grace

with the tears upon her A face

had no mother's hand to hold (D Dsus4 D)

Chorus

It was a labor of G5 pain,

it was cold sky a Bm bove.

But for the girl on the ground in the G5 dark

Every beat of her beautiful A heart

was A labor of Love (D Dsus4 D)

Verse

Noble Joseph at her G5 side

Callused hands and weary eyes(D Dsus4 D)

There were no midwives to be G5 found

In the streets of David's A town

In the middle of the night(D Dsus4 D)

So he held her and he Bm prayed

Shafts of moonlight on his F♯m face

But the baby in her womb G5

He was the maker of the moon A

He was the Author of the faith D

That could Dsus make the mountains move(A Asus A let ring out)

Instrumental bridge

G

D (Again 2 measures)

G

A

Bm

F♯m

Chorus

It was a labor of G5 pain,

it was cold sky a Bm bove.

But for the girl on the ground in the G5 dark

Every beat of her beautiful A heart

was a labor of Love Bm

For little Mary full of grace G

With the tears upon her face A

It was a labor of love (D Let ring out)

GItD was not a silent G5 night

A ...In the Streets of David's Town(D Dsus4 D)

G A D