| Text: | Once in Royal David's City |
| Author: | Cecil F. Alexander, 1818-1895 |
| Tune: | IRBY |
| Composer: | Henry J. Gauntlett, 1805-1876 |
| Media: | MIDI file |
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 Jesus is our childhood's pattern,
day by day like us he grew;
he was little, weak, and helpless,
tears and smiles like us he knew:
and he feels for all our sadness,
and he shares in all our gladness.
4 And our eyes at last shall see him,
through his own redeeming love;
for that child, so dear and gentle,
is our Lord in heaven above:
and he leads his children on
to the place where he has gone.
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| First Line: | Once in royal David's city |
| Title: | Once in Royal David's City |
| Author: | Cecil F. Alexander, 1818-1895 |
| Meter: | 8.7.8.7.7.7. |
| Language: | English |
| Publication Date: | 2003 |
| Scripture: | ; ; ; ; ; ; ; |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
| Tune Information | |
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| Name: | IRBY |
| Composer: | Henry J. Gauntlett, 1805-1876 |
| Meter: | 8.7.8.7.7.7. |
| Key: | F Major |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
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