Voices United ‎#43

43. Go, Tell It on the Mountain

Refrain:
Go, tell it on the mountain,
over the hills and everywhere.
Go, tell it on the mountain
that Jesus Christ is born.

1 While shepherds kept their watching
o'er silent flocks by night,
behold, throughout the heavens
there shone a holy light. [Refrain]

2 The shepherds feared and trembled
when lo, above the earth
rang out the angel chorus
that hailed our Saviour's birth. [Refrain]

3 Down in a lonely manger
the humble Christ was born,
and God sent our salvation
that blessed Christmas morn. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: While shepherds kept their watching
• Title: Go, Tell It on the Mountain
• Author: John Wesley Work II (1907)
• Refrain First Line: Go, tell it on the mountain
• Meter: Irregular
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1996
• Topic: The Christian Year: Christmas; Choruses and Refrains; Christian Year: Christmas; Closing Hymns; Good News, Gospel; Jesus Christ: Birth and Infancy; Jesus Christ: Saviour; Joy; Recessionals; Service Music: Sending Forth/Commissioning; Spirituals; Testimony; Advent 4: Year A; Christmas Eve: Year A; Christmas Day 2: Year A; Epiphany: Year A; Advent 2: Year B; Christmas 1: Year B; Christmas Day 2: Year C; Epiphany 3: Year C

Tune Information

• Name: GO, TELL IT
• Meter: Irregular
• Key: G Major
• Source: African-American spiritual 19th century arr. United Reformed Church (U.K.)
• Copyright: Arrangement copyright © United Reformed Church. By permission of Oxford University Press.