Angels We Have Heard on High

Angels We Have Heard on High
French carol.  Public domain.

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.

Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyful strains prolong?
Say what may the tidings be,
Which inspire your heav'nly song?
(chorus)

Come to Bethlehem, and see
Him whose birth the angels sing;
Come, adore on bended knee
Christ the Lord, the newborn King.
(chorus)

See within a manger laid:
Jesus, Lord of heav'n and earth!
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
With us sing our Savior's birth.
(chorus)

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