We Three Kings Chords
We Three Kings by John Hopkins Jr is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of Em. It uses the chords Em, B7, D, G, Am, D7 and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Em B7 Em
We three kings of Orient are;
Em B7 Em
Bearing gifts, we traverse afar,
Em D G
Field and fountain, moor and mountain,
Am B7 Em
Following yonder star.
Chorus:
D7 G C G
O, star of wonder, star of night,
G C G
Star with royal beauty bright,
Em D C D7
Westward leading, still proceeding
G C G
Guide us to thy perfect light.
Born a King on Bethlehem's plain,
Gold I bring to crown Him again,
King forever, ceasing never
Over us all to reign.
(Chorus)
Frankincense to offer have I;
Incense owns a Deity night;
Prayer and praising, voices raising,
Worship Him, God on high.
(Chorus)
Myrrh is mine: its bitter perfume
Breathes a life of gathering gloom;
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying,
Sealed in the stone-cold tomb.
(Chorus)
Glorious now behold Him arise,
King and God and Sacrifice;
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Peals through the earth and skies.
(Chorus)
Words and music by John H. Hopkinds, Jr., 1857.
Public domain