verse 1  

   G                G7                 C                    Am  
The marketplace is empty, No more traffic in the streets,  

            D                                        C               G  
All the builders' tools are silent,  No more time to harvest wheat;  

      G                       G7                 C                     Am  
Busy housewives cease their labors,   In the courtroom no debate,  

           D                               C                             G  
Work on earth is all suspended  as the King comes thro' the gate.  


Chorus  
        G        G7       C            Am  
O the King is coming, The King is coming!  

       D                                       C                 G  
I just heard the trumpets sounding, And now His face I see;  

                 G7          C         Am  
O the King is coming, The King is coming!  

         D                    G  
Praise God, He's coming for me!  


verse 2  

   G                   G7                   C                    Am  
Happy faces line the hallways, Those whose lives have been redeemed,  

          D                                   C               G  
Broken homes that He has mended, Those from prison He has freed;  

        G                G7            C                     Am  
Little children and the aged Hand in hand stand all aglow,  

           D                               C                             G  
Who were crippled, broken, ruined, Clad in garments white as snow.  


verse 3  

        G                 G7          C                    Am  
I can hear the chariots rumble, I can see the marching throng,  

            D                             C               G  
The flurry of God's trumpets Spells the end of sin and wrong:  

      G               G7                 C                     Am  
Regal robes are now unfolding, Heaven's grandstand's all in place,  

           D                             C                             G  
Heaven's choir now assembled, Start to sing "Amazing Grace!"