“Angels We Have Heard on High”

“Angels We Have Heard on High”

Tune: Gloria

Angels we have heard on high, sweetly singing o’er the plains,
and the mountains in reply echoing their joyous strains.
Glo – ria in excelsis Deo, glo – ria in excelsis Deo.

Shepherds, why this jubilee? Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be which inspire your heavenly song?
Glo – ria in excelsis Deo, glo – ria in excelsis Deo.

Come to Bethlehem and see him whose birth the angels sing;
come, adore on bended knee Christ the Lord, the new-born King.
Glo – ria in excelsis Deo, glo – ria in excelsis Deo.

See him in a manger laid, whom the choirs of angels praise;
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid, while our hearts in love we raise.
Glo – ria in excelsis Deo, glo – ria in excelsis Deo.
Amen.