Text: | Angels We Have Heard on High |
Tune: | GLORIA |
1 Angels we have heard on high,
Sweetly singing o'er 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 heav'nly 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-
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Angels we have heard on high |
Title: | Angels We Have Heard on High |
Refrain First Line: | Gloria in excelsis Deo |
Meter: | 77 77 with Refrain |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1993 |
Topic: | Christmas |
Source: | Trans. The Crown of Jesus, Part 2, London, 1862, alt.; Nouveau recueil de cantiques, 1855 |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | GLORIA |
Meter: | 77 77 with Refrain |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | Nouveau recueil de cantiques, 1855 |