When A Child Is Born by Johnny Mathis, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

When A Child Is Born

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The fourth of seven children, John Royce Mathis was born on September 30, 1935 in Gilmer, TX to Clem and Mildred Mathis. As a small boy, the family moved to Post Street in San Francisco. It was there that he learned an appreciation of music from his father who taught him his first song, “My Blue Heaven”. At age eight, his father purchased an old upright piano for $25. When he brought it home, it wouldn’t fit through the front door. So that evening

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A ray of hope flickers in the sky
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A tiny star lights up way up high
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All across the land dawns a brand new morn
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This comes to pass when a child is born

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A silent wish sails the seven seas
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The winds of change whisper in the trees
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And the walls of doubt crumble tossed and torn
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This comes to pass when a child is born

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A rosy hue settles all around
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You've got the feel you're on solid ground
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For a spell or two no-one seems forlorn
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This comes to pass when a child is born

And all of this happens because the world is waiting
Waiting for one child
Black white yellow no-one knows
But a child that will grow up and turn tears to laughter
Hate to love war to peace and everyone to everyone's neighbour
And misery and suffering will be words to be forgotten forever

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It's all a dream an illusion now
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It must come true sometime soon somehow
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All across the land dawns a brand new morn
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This comes to pass when a child is born