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Text: | Once in Royal David's City |
Author: | Cecil F. Alexander |
Tune: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry John Gauntlett |
Harmonizer: | David Budmen |
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 feeleth for our sadness,
And he shareth in our gladness.
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 |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7.8.7. |
Publication Date: | 1996 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Children; Christmas; Story of Jesus(1 more...) |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | IRBY |
Composer: | Henry John Gauntlett |
Harmonizer: | David Budmen (1995) |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7.8.7. |
Key: | F Major |