#147 — Angels we have heard on high

I. Angels we have heard on high,
sweetly singing o'er the plains,
and the mountains in reply
echoing their joyous strains.

Gloria in excelsis Deo.

2. Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains proIong?
What the gladsome tidings be
which inspire your heavenly song?

Gloria in excelsis Deo.

3. Come to Bethlehem and see
Christ whose birth the angels sing;
come, adore on bended knee,
Christ, the Lord, the newborn King.

Gloria in excelsis Deo.

4. See him in a manger laid,
whom the choirs of angels praise;
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
while our hearts in love we raise.

Gloria in excelsis Deo.