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Text: | Once in Royal David's City |
Author: | Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895 |
Tune: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry J. Gauntlett, 1805-1876 |
1 Once in royal David’s city
stood a lowly cattle shed,
where a mother laid her baby
in a manger for his bed:
Mary was that mother mild,
Jesus Christ, her little child.
2 He came down to earth from heaven
who is God and Lord of all,
and his shelter was a stable,
and his cradle was a stall;
with the poor and meek and lowly,
lived on earth our Savior holy.
3 And our eyes at last shall see him,
through his own redeeming love;
for that child so dear and gentle
is our Lord in heav'n above;
and he leads his children on
to the place where he is gone.
4 Not in that poor lowly stable,
with the oxen standing by,
we shall see him; but in heaven,
set at God’s right hand on high;
there his children gather round,
bright like stars, with glory crowned.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Once in royal David's city |
Title: | Once in Royal David's City |
Author: | Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895 |
Meter: | 87 87 77 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2006 |
Topic: | Advent; Christmas; Songs for Children |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry J. Gauntlett, 1805-1876 |
Meter: | 87 87 77 |
Key: | F Major |