Misc Praise Songs – Babylon Is Fallen (Guitar)

Dm              C
Hail the day so long expected,

Dm               A      Dm
Hail the year of full release.

Dm               C
Zion’s walls are now erected,

Dm               A       Dm
And her watchmen publish peace.

Dm
Through our Shiloh’s wide dominion,

Dm
Hear the trumpet loudly roar,

Dm                    C
Babylon is fallen, is fallen, is fallen,

Dm                   A       Dm
Babylon is fallen to rise no more.

Dm                C
All her merchants stand with wonder,

Dm                A        Dm
What is this that comes to pass:

Dm                 C
Murm’ring like the distant thunder,

Dm           A     Dm
Crying, “Oh alas, alas.”

Dm
Swell the sound, ye kings and nobles,

Dm
Priest and people, rich and poor;

Dm                    C
Babylon is fallen, is fallen, is fallen,

Dm                   A       Dm
Babylon is fallen to rise no more.

Dm               C
Blow the trumpet in Mount Zion,

Dm                  A      Dm
Christ shall come a second time;

Dm            C
Ruling with a rod of iron

Dm             A       Dm
All who now as foes combine.

Dm
Babel’s garments we’ve rejected,

Dm
And our fellowship is o’er,

Dm                    C
Babylon is fallen, is fallen, is fallen,

Dm                   A       Dm
Babylon is fallen to rise no more.