Songs of the Season

Angels We Have Heard on High
(Traditional French carol; translated by James Chadwick)

Angels we have heard on high,
Singing sweetly o'er the plains,
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains.

Refrain:
Gloria in excelsis Deo
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
Him whose birth the angels sing.
Come, adore on bended knee
Christ, the Lord, the newborn King.

Refrain

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