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Text:Angels We Have Heard on High
Tune:GLORIA
Arranger:Edward Shippen Barnes

318. Angels We Have Heard on High

1 Angels we have heard on high,
sweetly singing o'er the plains,
and the mountains in reply
echo back their joyous strains.

Refrain:
Gloria in excelsis Deo,
gloria in excelsis Deo.

2 Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
Say what may the tidings be,
which inspire your heav'nly song? [Refrain]

3 Come to Bethlehem and see
him whose birth the angels sing;
come, adore on bended knee
Christ the Lord, the newborn King. [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: Angels we have heard on high
Title: Angels We Have Heard on High
Refrain First Line: Gloria in excelsis Deo
Meter: 7.7.7.7.ref.
Language: English
Publication Date: 2018
Scripture:
Topic: Angels; Christ: Birth of; Joy
Source: Traditional French carol
Tune Information
Name: GLORIA
Arranger: Edward Shippen Barnes (1937)
Meter: 7.7.7.7.ref.
Key: F Major or modal
Source: Traditional French melody



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