Angels we have heard on high Lyrics
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Angels we have heard on high Lyrics
Title: Angels we have heard on high
Composer: Charles H. Giffen
Number of voices: 4, 5vv. Voicings: SATB and SSATB (including S descant)
Genre: Sacred, Hymn, Carol
Languages: English, Latin
Instruments: Organ or Piano
Published: 2008
Description: Original settings utilizing the Hymn tune McShane
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Original text and translations
English text
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!
Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your heavenly song?
Refrain
Come to Bethlehem and see
Christ Whose birth the angels sing;
Come, adore on bended knee,
Christ the Lord, the newborn King.
Refrain
See Him in a manger laid,
Whom the choirs of angels praise;
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
While our hearts in love we raise.
Refrain
