Angels We Have Heard on High

Words: James Chadwick · Music: Charles Hutchins, Edward Shippen Barnes · 1860

Verse 1
Angels we have heard on high,
sweetly singing o'er the plains,
and the mountains in reply
echoing their joyous strains:

Chorus
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!

Verse 2
Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
which inspire your heav'nly song?

Verse 3
Come to Bethlehem and see
him whose birth the angels sing;
come adore on bended knee,
Christ the Lord, the newborn King.

Verse 4
See him in a manger laid,
Jesus, Lord of heav'n and earth!
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
sing with us our Savior's birth.

Words: French carol; tr. James Chadwick, 1860, alt. | Music: French carol; harm. Charles Hutchins, 1891; rev. E. S. Barnes, 1937

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