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Text: | Angels We Have Heard on High |
Tune: | GLORIA |
Arranger: | Edward S. Barnes |
Composer (descant): | Richard E. Gerig |
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 heavenly 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]
4 See within a manger laid
Jesus, Lord of heaven and earth!
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
sing with us our Savior's birth. [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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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: | 1990 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Biblical Persons; Biblical Persons: Mary, Joseph; Christmas Season(1 more...) |
Source: | Traditional French carol, 18th C.; trans. from Crown of Jesus Music,1862, alt. |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | GLORIA |
Arranger: | Edward S. Barnes (1937) |
Composer (descant): | Richard E. Gerig (1956) |
Meter: | 7.7.7.7.Ref. |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | Traditional French melody, 18th C. |
Copyright: | Desc. © 1979, 1990 Hope Publishing Company |