Text: | Good Christian Friends, Rejoice |
Translator: | John Mason Neale |
Tune: | IN DULCI JUBILO |
Harmonizer: | Gary Alan Smith |
1. Good Christian friends, rejoice
with heart and soul and voice!
Give ye heed to what we say:
News! News!
Jesus Christ is born today.
Ox and ass before him bow,
and he is in the manger now.
Christ is born today!
Christ is born today!
2 Good Christian friends, rejoice
with heart and soul and voice!
Now ye hear of endless bliss:
Joy! Joy!
Jesus Christ was born for this!
He hath opened heaven's door,
and we are blest for evermore.
Christ was born for this!
Christ was born for this!
3 Good Christian friends, rejoice
with heart and soul and voice!
Now ye need not fear the grave:
Peace! Peace!
Jesus Christ was born to save!
Calls you one and calls you all
to gain his everlasting hall.
Christ was born to save!
Christ was born to save!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Good Christian friends, rejoice |
Title: | Good Christian Friends, Rejoice |
Translator: | John Mason Neale (1853, alt.) |
Meter: | Irregular |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1996 |
Topic: | The Christian Year: Christmas; Calling and Response; Christian Year: Christmas(11 more...) |
Source: | Latin, 14th-century |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | IN DULCI JUBILO |
Harmonizer: | Gary Alan Smith (1988) |
Meter: | Irregular |
Key: | F Major |
Copyright: | Harmony copyright © 1988 The United Methodist Publishing House |