Herod
This Dm news I've Gm heard is Dm botherin' Am me
The Dm whole town's Gm in a Dm fuss
If Dm what I've Gm heard was Dm meant to Am be
'Twill Dm be the Am end of Dm us
I'll Gm call the Dm priests, those Gm of the Dm law
And Gm ask them Dm straight aGm way
This Gm so-called Dm King for Gm those in Dm awe
We'll Am deal with him toDm day!
And Dm where, I Gm say, do Dm tell me Am now
This Dm child was Gm to be Dm born?
I'll Dm have your Gm heads, if Dm you don't Am know
Why Dm wasn't Am I foreDm warned?
"In Gm BethleDm hem," the Gm chief priest Dm cried
In Gm great fear Dm for his Gm life
He Gm knew HerDm od would Gm have him Dm tried
His Am neck saved from the Dm knife
But Dm BethleGm hem? It's Dm just so Am small
It Dm matters Gm not the Dm least
A Dm "ruler!" Gm they who Dm have such Am gall
These Dm trav'lers Am from the Dm East
The Gm prophets Dm speak in Gm their own Dm way
That Gm he's the Dm one foreGm told
We Gm read the Dm scriptures Gm on this Dm day
The Am truth we now beDm hold
Commentary Matthew 2, v. 3-6: When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born. "In Bethlehem in Judea," they replied, "for this is what the prophet has written:
"'But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for out of you will come a ruler
who will shepherd my people Israel.'"
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