Christmas
O Come, Little Children
- Words:
- German Folk Song
- Music:
- Johann A. P. Schulz
Sheet music
- 1O come, little children, from cot and from hall,O come to the manger in Bethlehem’s stall.There meekly He lieth, the heavenly Child,So poor and so humble, so sweet and so mild.
- 2The hay is His pillow, the manger His bed,The beasts stand in wonder to gaze on His head,Yet there where He lieth, so weak and so poor,Come shepherds and wise men to kneel at His door.
- 3Now “Glory to God!” sing the angels on high,And “Peace upon earth!” heav’nly voices reply.Then come little children, and join in the layThat gladdened the world on that first Christmas Day.
In the hymnals
- The words are in 3 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are 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.