We Come With Song Rejoicing

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1 We come with song re­joic­ing
And grate­ful prais­es bring
To Je­sus our Redeem­er;
He is the King of kings.
We view Him in a man­ger,
Asleep up­on the hay,
When shep­herds came to wor­ship,
That first bright Christ­mas day.

2 Angelic choirs from Heav­en
Proclaimed the news to them,
Sang glo­ry in the high­est,
Peace and good­will to­ward men;
In Da­vid’s town, they told them,
The place of God’s de­sign,
They’d find the new­born Sav­ior,
With swad­dling clothes the sign.

3 With haste they made the jour­ney
To near­by Beth­le­hem,
To see the things the an­gels
Had made known un­to them;
There they found Jo­seph, Ma­ry,
And in a man­ger lay
The pro­mised Child named Je­sus,
O what a joy­ful day!

4 The shep­herds were the first ones
To pub­lish it abroad,
The tid­ings of sal­va­tion,
Through Je­sus Christ our Lord;
The an­cient, time­less mes­sage,
The Church’s glad re­frain:
By faith in Christ our Sav­ior,
Eternal life we gain.


Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16096

Author: Harry R. Showalter

Showalter, Harry R. (Cressman, Virginia, August 13, 1889--1992). Mennonite. He was from the Old Order horse and buggy church (Mennonite) in Virginia. He remembered the Sunday when the conservatives went to have services at the Bank meetinghouse and found someone had locked the doors. The group of people met under the trees and the ministers preached from the steps of the meetinghouse. The buggies of the older people were brought up close so that the older people could hear. Harry remembered leaning against a tree during the services. Harry was raised in the Harmonia Sacra tradition of music and singing schools. In Ohio the Old Order Pleasant View Mennonite (Wisler) Church, Columbiana, Ohio (Mahoning County), the young people would meet i… Go to person page >

Adapter: Richard W. Adams

Born: 1952, Mis­souri. Adams grad­u­at­ed from the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Mis­sou­ri, Co­lum­bia (BA 1974, cum laude, Phi Be­ta Kap­pa). Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: We come with song re­joic­ing
Title: We Come With Song Rejoicing
Author: Harry R. Showalter
Adapter: Richard W. Adams
Source: Zion's Praises by Aaron Z. Weaver (Pittsgrove, NJ: Weaver Music, 1987)
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

WEBB

George J. Webb (b. Rushmore Lodge, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, 1803; d. Orange, NJ, 1887) composed WEBB (also known as MORNING LIGHT) on a voyage from England to the United States. The tune was published in The Odeon, a collection of secular music compiled by Webb and Lowell Mason (PHH 96) i…

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