Worship in Song ‎#64

64. Angels we have heard on high

1 Angels we have heard on high,
Sweetly singing over the plains,
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains.

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

2 Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your heavenly song? [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 choirs of angels praise:
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
While our hearts in love we raise. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: Angels we have heard on high
• Refrain First Line: Gloria in excelsis Deo
• Meter: 7.7.7.7. with refrain
• Publication Date: 1996
• Scripture:
  Luke 2:8-14
• Topic: Adoration; Angels; Children; Christmas; Story of Jesus; Joy; Nativity; Singing (or Song)
• Source: V. 1-3, Crown of Jesus Music II, 1862; V. 4, Carols Old and Carols New, 1916

Tune Information

• Name: GLORIA
• Meter: 7.7.7.7. with refrain
• Key: F Major
• Source: French carol, 1855