The Worshipbook ‎#299

299. Angels We Have Heard on High

1 Angels we have heard on high,
Singing sweetly through the night,
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their brave delight.

[Refrain:]
Gloria in excelsis Deo,
Gloria in excelsis Deo.

2 Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why these songs of happy cheer?
What great brightness did you see?
What glad tidings did you hear? [Refrain]

3 Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing;
Come, adore on bended knee
Christ, the Lord, the newborn King. [Refrain]

4 See him in a manger laid
Whom the angels praise above;
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
While we raise our hearts in love. [Refrain]

Amen.

Text Information

• First Line: Angels we have heard on high
• Title: Angels We Have Heard on High
• Adapter: Earl Marlatt (1937)
• Refrain First Line: Gloria in excelsis Deo
• Meter: 7.7.7.7. with Refrain
• Publication Date: 1972
• Scripture:
  Luke 2:8-14
• Topic: Christian Year: Christmas
• Copyright: Words from The New Church Hymnal; used by permission of Fleming H. Revell Company, publisher.
• Notes: Trans. in Crown of Jesus, 1862; alt.

Tune Information

• Name: GLORIA
• Meter: 7.7.7.7. with Refrain
• Key: F Major
• Source: French carol