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Holiday Songbook

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

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Index of SongS

While Shepherds Watched

What Child is This?

We Three Kings of Orient Are

Watchman Tell us of the Night

Upon the Houstop

The First Noel

O Little Town of Bethlehem

O Holy Night

Joy to the World

Good King Wenceslas

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Deck the Halls

11.

Hark, the Herald Angels Sing

12.

WHILe SHePHeRdSWATCHed (1703)

(This Christmas carol, dating backto 1703, comes from a poem writtenby Nahum Tate, the poet laureate inthe reign of Queen Anne, andNicholas Brady. It features para-phrased psalms from the bible.)While shepherds watched theirflocks by night,All seated on the ground,The angel of the Lord came down,And glory shone around,And glory shone around.“Fear not!” said he, for mightydreadHad seized their troubled mind.“Glad tidings of great joy I bringTo you and all mankindTo you and all mankind.“To you, in David’s town, this dayIs born of David’s lineA Savior, who is Christ the Lord,And this shall be the sign,And this shall be the sign.“The heavenly Babe you there shallfindTo human view displayed,All meanly wrapped in swathingbands,And in a manger laid,And in a manger laid.”Thus spake the seraph and forth-withAppeared a shining throngOf angels praising God on high,Who thus addressed their song,Who thus addressed their song:“All glory be to God on high,And to the Earth be peace;Good will henceforth from Heavento menBegin and never cease,Begin and never cease!”

WHAT CHILd IS THIS?

(A popular Christmas carol writtenin 1865, it was written by WilliamChatterton Dix who wrote hymnswhile he was ill and confined to bedfor several months.)What Child is this who, laid to restOn Mary’s lap is sleeping?Whom angels greet with anthemssweet,While shepherds watch are keeping?This, this is Christ the King,Whom shepherds guard and angelssing;Haste, haste, to bring Him laud,The Babe, the Son of Mary.Why lies He in such mean estate,Where ox and ass are feeding?Good Christians, fear, for sinnershereThe silent Word is pleading.Nails, spear shall pierce Himthrough,The cross be borne for me, for you.Hail, hail the Word made flesh,The Babe, the Son of Mary.So bring Him incense, gold andmyrrh,Come peasant, king to own Him;

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The King of kings salvation brings,Let loving hearts enthrone Him.Raise, raise a song on high,The virgin sings her lullaby. Joy, joy for Christ is born,The Babe, the Son of Mary.

We THRee KIngS ofoRIenT ARe

(John Henry Hopkins, 1857) (JohnH. Hopkins Jr. wrote this famousAmerican carol in 1857 for aChristmas pageant at a seminary inNew York City.)We three kings of Orient are;Bearing gifts we traverse afar,Field and fountain, moor andmountain, Following yonder star.Refrain:O star of wonder, star of light,Star with royal beauty bright,Westward leading, still proceeding,Guide us to thy perfect light.Born a King on Bethlehem’s plainGold I bring to crown Him again,King forever, ceasing never,Over us all to reign.RefrainFrankincense to offer have I;Incense owns a Deity nigh;Prayer and praising, voices raising,Worshipping God on high.RefrainMyrrh is mine, its bitter perfumeBreathes a life of gathering gloom;Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying,Sealed in the stone cold tomb.RefrainGlorious now behold Him arise;King and God and sacrifice;Alleluia, Alleluia,Sounds through the earth and skies.Refrain

WATCHMAn, TeLL USof THe nIgHT

(written by Sir John Bowring in1825) (The hymn likely most famil-iar to Americans, was written by John Bowring.) Watchman, tell usof the night,What its signs of promise are.Traveler, o’er yon mountain’sheight, See that glory beaming star.Watchman, does its beauteous rayAught of joy or hope foretell?Traveler, yes—it brings the day,Promised day of Israel.Watchman, tell us of the night;Higher yet that star ascends.Traveler, blessedness and light,Peace and truth its course portends.Watchman, will its beams aloneGild the spot that gave them birth?Traveler, ages are its own;See, it bursts o’er all the earth.Watchman, tell us of the night,

Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune • Tuesday, November 29, 2011