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| 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 new-born King. [Refrain]
| Text Information | |
|---|---|
| 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 and refraim |
| Language: | English; Latin |
| Publication Date: | 1982 |
| Topic: | Christmas |
| Source: | French carol; tr. H. F. Hemy, Crown of Jesus Music, Part II, 1862, alt. |
| Tune Information | |
|---|---|
| Name: | GLORIA |
| Meter: | 77 77 and refraim |
| Key: | F Major |
| Source: | French carol |
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