The Promised Son of David — Nashville Number Chart Key: Bb major (builds to a triumphant final key change) | 76 BPM | 4/4 2m=Cm 4=Eb 5=F 6m=Gm 1=Bb Public domain (CC0). Transcribed from the audio — verify by ear. ================================================== [Intro (Hammond B3 swells; hand-claps land on 2 and 4; the choir vamps as the lead starts to testify)] 1 1 4 5 (Well, God made a promise a long, long time ago--) 5 1 ((a long time ago!)) 1 4 4 (and look what love has done:) 4 5 6m 6m (Ring it in the morning, tell it through the snow--) 4 4 4 (the promised Son of David's come!) [Verse 1 (driving -- the covenant sworn; Ps 89:3-4)] 1 1 4 1 5 (He swore it to David, He swore it by His name--) 4 1 1 (a covenant that time could never break:) 1 1 1 6m ("Your seed will I establish, your throne forever stand,) 5 1 4 1 (to all the generations, for My own name's sake!") 1 1 6m (Well, kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall,) 4 1 1 (but the word He swore stands over all--) 4 6m 5 1 (and here, in a manger, the promise is done:) 4 4 1 1 (so lift up your head and behold the Son!) [Refrain -- the shout hook (full choir trades with the lead; big clap-along, tambourine ringing)] 1 4 6m (Oh, what a Son! (what a Son!)) 6m 1 1 (the promised Son of David's come!) 4 5 1 (Sworn from of old, and now He's here--) 6m 4 1 (the highest King of all the earth!) 1 4 1 (Clap your hands, let the rafters ring,) 2m 5 1 (lift Him high, let the whole house sing:) 4 6m 1 (God kept His word and heaven's begun--) 1 4 1 (oh, praise Him, praise Him, what a Son!) [Verse 2 (the Son who calls God Father; Ps 89:26)] 1 1 1 6m (And this little One in the hay and the cold) 4 5 1 1 (one day will cry with a Son's own voice:) 6m 4 1 1 ("You are my God, my Father, my Rock, my stronghold,) 4 1 5 (the rock of my salvation!"--O church, rejoice!) 1 4 1 (Well, the One the angels bow before) 2m 1 1 (has come to a stable, a lowly door;) 4 6m 1 6m (Yet still He is God, and God is His own--) 4 6m 5 1 (so run to the manger and worship the Son!) [Refrain (bigger -- the choir stacks, the organ churns underneath)] 1 4 1 (Oh, what a Son! (what a Son!)) 1 4 5 (the promised Son of David's come!) 5 1 1 (Sworn from of old, and now He's here--) 4 4 4 (the highest King of all the earth!) 5 6m 6m (Clap your hands, let the rafters ring,) 4 4 4 (lift Him high, let the whole house sing:) 1 1 4 (God kept His word and heaven's begun--) 1 5 4 (oh, praise Him, praise Him, what a Son!) [Bridge / Shout vamp (call-and-response climax; Ps 89:27 -- organ churning, choir answering the lead)] 1 1 1 (I will make Him My firstborn! (Firstborn!)) 1 1 6m 5 1 (higher than the kings of the earth! (higher than them all!)) 4 1 1 1 (Every crown, come lay it down-- (lay it down!)) 6m 4 1 1 (there's a greater King been born! (a greater King!)) 4 6m 5 (So wave your hands (wave your hands!)) 1 4 4 (stomp your feet (stomp your feet!)) 1 1 1 4 6m (Sing it to the mountains, sing it up and down the street:) 6m 1 1 (the First and the Highest, the Everlasting One--) 4 5 1 (oh, glory, hallelujah, what a Son!) [Final Refrain (KEY CHANGE UP -- everything at full: lead ad-libbing over the mass choir, tambourine, organ, big drums)] 6m 4 1 (Oh, what a Son! (what a Son!)) 1 4 1 (the promised Son of David's come!) 2m 5 1 (Sworn from of old, and now He's here--) 4 6m 1 (the highest King of all the earth!) 1 4 1 (Clap your hands, let the rafters ring,) 1 1 1 (lift Him high, let the whole house sing:) 6m 4 5 (God kept His word and heaven's begun--) 1 1 6m (oh, praise Him, praise Him, what a Son!) [Tag (choir out, hands lifted, slowing -- then one last shouted hit)] 4 1 1 4 (He's the promised One... the Son of David's come...) 1 5 1 4 ((what a Son!) -- oh, glory... what a Son!)