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Text:Christ Was Once a Little Baby
Author:Lavinia R. Brauff
Tune:[Christ was once a little baby]
Composer:Florence W. Williams

165. Christ Was Once a Little Baby

1 Christ was once a little baby
Just like you and me:
Born in Bethl’hem of Judea,
Far across the sea;
No room for the little Jesus,
Could be found on earth:
And a stable dark and dreary
Was His place of birth.

2 Day by day the little Jesus
Grew like you and me:
Learned to lisp a pray’r to heaven
At His mother’s knee;
He was poor, but very happy,
Happy in God’s love:
List’ning to His gentle guidance
Coming from above.

3 This is still the same dear Jesus
Of whose birth we sing:
O! ‘tis sweet to tell the story
Of our new-born King,
Who was once a little baby
Just like you and me:
Born in Bethl’hem of Judea
Far across the sea.

Text Information
First Line: Christ was once a little baby
Title: Christ Was Once a Little Baby
Author: Lavinia R. Brauff
Publication Date: 1901
Tune Information
Name: [Christ was once a little baby]
Composer: Florence W. Williams



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