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642 | With One Voice#643 | 644 |
Text: | Once in Royal David's City |
Author: | Cecil F. Alexander, 1818-1895 |
Tune: | IRBY |
Arranger (flute): | Richard Proulx, b. 1937 |
Composer: | Henry J. Gauntlett, 1805-1876 |
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 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.
4 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, 1818-1895 |
Meter: | 8 7 8 7 7 7 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2000 |
Scripture: | ; ; |
Topic: | Christmas |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry J. Gauntlett, 1805-1876 |
Arranger (flute): | Richard Proulx, b. 1937 |
Meter: | 8 7 8 7 7 7 |
Key: | F Major |
Copyright: | Flute arr. © Augsburg Publishing House |