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【Choir】№1 Once in Royal David's City ╬ Carols from King's College, Cambridge 2013 ※ Tune: IRBY (F major) ※ Music by: Henry John Gauntlett (1849) ※ Lyrics by: Cecil Frances Alexander (1848) ※ …More
【Choir】№1 Once in Royal David's City ╬ Carols from King's College, Cambridge 2013

※ Tune: IRBY (F major)
※ Music by: Henry John Gauntlett (1849)
※ Lyrics by: Cecil Frances Alexander (1848)
※ Harmonized by: Henry John Gauntlett & Arthur Henry Mann
※ Published in: Hymns for Little Children (1848)
※ Descant by: Stephen Cleobury
※ Genre: Sacred, Christmas carol
※ Number of voices: 4+1vv
※ Voicing: SATB+Descant
※ Language: English
※ Choir of: King's College, Cambridge (2013)
※ Directed by: Stephen Cleobury

§ Lyrics §

[Solo]
Once in royal David's City
Stood a lowly cattle-shed,
Where a mother laid her Baby,
In a manger for His bed:
Mary was that mother mild,
Jesus Christ her little Child.

[Choir]
He came down to earth from heaven,
Who is God and Lord of all,
And His shelter was a stable,
And His cradle was a stall;
With the poor, and mean, and lowly,
Lived on earth our Saviour Holy.

[Choir]
And, through all His wondrous childhood,
He would honour and obey,
Love, and watch the lowly maiden
In whose gentle arms He lay;
Christian children all must be
Mild, obedient, good as He.

[All]
For He is our childhood's Pattern;
Day by day like us He grew;
He was little, weak, and helpless,
Tears and smiles like us He knew;
And He feeleth for our sadness,
And He shareth in our gladness.

[All]
And our eyes at last shall see Him,
Through His own redeeming love,
For that Child so dear and gentle
Is our Lord in heaven above;
And He leads His children on
To the place where He is gone.

[All]
Not in that poor lowly stable,
With the oxen standing by,
We shall see Him; but in heaven,
Set at God's right hand on high;
When like stars His children crowned,
All in white shall wait around.