Johnny Cash – The Gifts They Gave (Guitar)

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Jesus our King, kind and good

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Was humbly born in a stable of wood

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And the lowly beasts around Him stood

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Jesus our King, kind and good

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"I", said the donkey, shaggy and brown

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"I carried His mother up and down

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I carried His mother to Bethlehem town"

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"I", said the donkey, shaggy and brown

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"I", said the ox, "This was my hay

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I gave Him my manger, 'twas here that He lay

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I gave Him my manger, 'twas here that He lay"

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"I", said the ox, "This was my hay"

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"I" said the sheep with pearly horn

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"I gave Him my wool for a blanket warm

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He wore my coat on Christmas morn"

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"I", said the sheep with pearly horn

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"I", said the dove, from the rafters high

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"I sang Him to sleep that He would not cry

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We sang Him to sleep, my love and I"

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"I", said the dove, from the rafters high

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And so every heart, by some good spell

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In the stable dark, was glad to tell

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Of the gift that he gave to Emmanuel

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Of the gift that he gave to Emmanuel