Christmas
Angels We Have Heard On High
- Words:
- French Carol; Translated by James Chadwick, 1862.
- Music:
- 'Gloria' French carol melody.
- Setting:
- Edward (or Edwin) S. Barnes, before 1916.
- Metre:
- 7 7 7 7 Gloria18
- 1Angels we have heard on highSweetly singing o'er the plains,And the mountains in replyEchoing their joyous strains.Gloria, in excelsis Deo! Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
- 2Shepherds, why this jubilee?Why your joyous strains prolong?What the gladsome tidings beWhich inspire your heav'nly song?Gloria, in excelsis Deo! Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
- 3Come to Bethlehem and seeChrist Whose birth the angels sing;Come, adore on bended knee,Christ the Lord, the newborn King.Gloria, in excelsis Deo! Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
- 4See 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! Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
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In the hymnals
- The words are in 303 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
- The tune, Gloria, is in 294 hymnals. The tune →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project (Brian J. Dumont), which places its own work in the public domain. Further sheet music is from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.