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Text: | Once in Royal David's City |
Author: | Cecil F. Alexander |
Tune: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry J. Gauntlett |
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 For he 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.
5 Not in that poor lowly stable
with the oxen standing by
we shall see him, but in heaven,
set at God's right hand on high:
there his children gather round
bright like stars, with glory crowned.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Once in royal David's city |
Title: | Once in Royal David's City |
Author: | Cecil F. Alexander (1848) |
Meter: | 87 87 77 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1989 |
Topic: | The Church Year: Christmas |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry J. Gauntlett (1849) |
Meter: | 87 87 77 |
Key: | F Major |
Media | |
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MIDI file: | ![]() |
MIDI file: | ![]() (Faith Alive Christian Resources) |