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O Little Town of Bethlehem

Author: Phillips Brooks Appears in 845 hymnals Topics: Special Days Used With Tune: ST. LOUIS

Away in a Manger

Author: M. L. Appears in 546 hymnals Topics: Special Days Used With Tune: [Away in a manger, no crib for a bed]

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 1,858 hymnals Topics: The Liturgical Year Christmas (Days of) First Line: Joy to the world! the Lord is come Lyrics: 1 Joy to the world! the Lord is come; Let earth receive her King; Let ev'ry heart prepare him room, And heav'n and nature sing, And heav'n and nature sing, And heav'n, and heav'n and nature sing. 2 Joy to the world! the Savior reigns; Let us our songs employ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains Repeat the sounding joy, Repeat the sounding joy, Repeat, repeat the sounding joy. 3 He rules the world with truth and grace, And makes the nations prove The glories of his righteousness, And wonders of his love, And wonders of his love, And wonders, wonders of his love. Scripture: Genesis 3:17-18 Used With Tune: ANTIOCH

What Child Is This

Author: William C. Dix, 1837-1898 Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 204 hymnals Topics: The Liturgical Year Christmas (Days of) First Line: What child is this, who, laid to rest Refrain First Line: This, this is Christ the King Lyrics: 1 What child is this, who, laid to rest, On Mary's lap is sleeping? Whom angels greet with anthems sweet, While shepherds watch are keeping? Refrain: This, this is Christ, the King, Whom shepherds guard and angels sing; Haste, haste to bring him laud, The babe, the son of Mary. 2 Why lies he in such mean estate Where ox and ass are feeding? Good Christian, fear: for sinners here The silent Word is pleading. [Refrain] 3 So bring him incense, gold, and myrrh, Come peasant, king, to own him; The King of kings salvation brings, Let loving hearts enthrone him. [Refrain] Scripture: Matthew 2:1-11 Used With Tune: GREENSLEEVES Text Sources: Bramley and Stainer's Christmas Carols New and Old, 1871

O Come, All Ye Faithful

Author: John F. Wade, c. 1711-1786; Frederick Oakeley, 1802-1880 Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 731 hymnals Topics: The Liturgical Year Christmas (Days of) First Line: O come, all ye faithful (Adeste fideles) Refrain First Line: O come, let us adore him (Venite, adoremus) Lyrics: 1 O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem: Come and behold him, born the King of angels; Refrain: O come, let us adore him, O come, let us adore him, O come, let us adore him, Christ, the Lord! 2 God of God, Light of Light, Lo! he comes forth from the Virgin's womb. Our very God, begotten, not created; [Refrain] 3 Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation, Sing, all ye citizens of heav'n above! Glory to God, all glory in the highest; [Refrain] 4 Yea, Lord, we greet thee, born this happy morning, Jesus, to thee be all glory giv'n; Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing; [Refrain] LATIN - 1 Adeste, fideles, laeti, triumphantes, Venite, venite in Bethlehem. Natum videte Regem angelorum. Refrain: Venite, adoremus, venite, adoremus, venite, adoremus Dominum. 2 Deum de Deo, Lumen de Lumine Gestant puellae viscera. Deum verum, Genitum, non factum. [Refrain] 3 Cantet nunc io, chorus angelorum. Cantet nunc aula caelestium. Gloria, gloria, in excelsis Deo. [Refrain] 4 Ergo qui natus Die hodierna, Jesu tibi sit gloria. Patris aeterni Verbum caro factum. [Refrain] Scripture: John 1:1-5 Used With Tune: ADESTE FIDELES

Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming

Author: Theodore Baker, 1851-1934 Meter: 7.6.7.6.6.7.6 Appears in 101 hymnals Topics: The Liturgical Year Christmas (Days of) Lyrics: 1 Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming From tender stem hath sprung! Of Jesse's lineage coming, As those of old have sung. It came, a flower bright, Amid the cold of winter, When half spent was the night. 2 Isaiah 'twas foretold it, This Rose I have in mind, With Mary we behold it, The Virgin Mother kind. To show God's love aright, She bore to us a Savior, When half spent was the night. 3 O Flow'r, whose fragrance tender With sweetness fills the air, Dispel in glorious splendor The darkness ev'rywhere; True man, yet very God, From sin and death now save us, And share our ev'ry load. Scripture: Isaiah 11:1 Used With Tune: ES IST EIN' ROS' ENTSPRUNGEN Text Sources: German Carol, 15th cent.

Silent Night

Author: Joseph Mohr, 1792-1849; John F. Young, 1820-1885 Meter: Irregular Appears in 623 hymnals Topics: The Liturgical Year Christmas (Days of) First Line: Silent night! Holy night! Lyrics: 1 Silent night! Holy night! All is calm, all is bright Round yon Virgin Mother and child! Holy infant so tender and mild, Sleep in heavenly peace, Sleep in heavenly peace. 2 Silent night! Holy night! Shepherds quake at the sight; Glories stream from heaven afar; Heav'nly hosts sing "Alleluia! Christ the Savior is born, Christ the Savior is born." 3 Silent night! Holy night! Son of God, love's pure light Radiant beams from thy holy face, With the dawn of redeeming grace, Jesus, Lord, at thy birth, Jesus, Lord, at thy birth. Scripture: Luke 1:77-79 Used With Tune: STILLE NACHT

Go, Tell It on the Mountain

Author: John W. Work, Jr., 1872-1925 Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Appears in 108 hymnals Topics: The Liturgical Year Christmas (Days of) First Line: While shepherds kept their watching Lyrics: Refrain: Go, tell it on the mountain, Over the hills and ev'rywhere; Go, tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born. 1 While shepherds kept their watching O'er silent flocks by night, Behold, throughout the heavens There shone a holy light. [Refrain] 2 The shepherds feared and trembled When high above the earth Rang out the angel chorus That hailed our Savior's birth. [Refrain] 3 And lo, when they had heard it, They all bowed down and prayed; They traveled on together To where the Babe was laid. [Refrain] 4 Down in a lowly manger The humble Christ was born, And God sent us salvation That blessed Christmas morn. [Refrain] Scripture: Isaiah 18:3 Used With Tune: GO TELL IT Text Sources: American Negro Songs and Spirituals, 1940

Infant Holy, Infant Lowly

Author: Edith M. Reed, 1885-1933 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7.7 Appears in 95 hymnals Topics: The Liturgical Year Christmas (Days of) Lyrics: 1 Infant holy, infant lowly, For his bed a cattle stall; Oxen lowing, pittle knowing Christ the babe is Lord of all. Swiftly winging, angels singing, Noels ringing, tidings bringing: Christ the babe is Lord of all. Christ the babe is Lord of all. 2 Flocks were sleeping, shepherds keeping Vigil till the morning new. Saw the glory, heard the story, Tidings of a Gospel true. Thus rejoicing, free from sorrow, Praises voicing greet the morrow: Christ the babe was born for you. Christ the babe was born for you. Scripture: Luke 2:6-20 Used With Tune: W ZLOBIE LEZY Text Sources: Polish Carol

We sing the glorious conquest

Author: John Ellerton, 1826-1893 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 28 hymnals Topics: Saints' and Other Holy Days Conversion of St. Paul Lyrics: 1 We sing the glorious conquest before Damascus gate, when Saul, the church's spoiler, came breathing threats and hate; the ravening wolf rushed forward full early to the prey; but lo, the Shepherd met him, and bound him fast today. 2 O glory most excelling that smote across his path! O light that pierced and blinded the zealot in his wrath, O voice that spake within him the calm reproving word, O love that sought and held him the bondman of his Lord! 3 O wisdom, ordering all things in order strong and sweet, what nobler spoil was ever cast at the Victor's feet? What wiser master-builder e'er wrought at thine employ than he, till now so furious your building to destroy? 4 Lord, teach thy church the lesson, still in her darkest hour of weakness and of danger to trust thy hidden power: thy grace by ways mysterious the wrath of man can bind, and in thy boldest foeman thy chosen saint can find. Scripture: Acts 9:3-5 Used With Tune: MORNING LIGHT