The Celebration Hymnal

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Angels We Have Heard on High

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?  
Say what may the 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]  

4 See within a manger laid  
Jesus, Lord of heav'n and earth!  
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,  
With us sing our Savior's birth. [Refrain]  

(Optional ending)  
Glory to God! Glory to God! Glory to God!

Theme: Christ: Birth