Christmas
Oxen And Sheep
- Words:
- Traditional French
- Music:
- French Folk Melody
Sheet music
- 1Oxen and sheep Thy guardians mild,Slumber, Sleep, Thou little Child!(Slumber, slumber, Slumber on!)(Slumber, Slumber!)Sleep, Thou little Child,(Sleep, Thou little Child,)(Sleep, Thou Child,)
- 2Angels pure and white,(Angels pure and white)(Angels)Watching all the night above the slumb’ring Child(Watch Thy sleep, slumb’ring little Child.)(Watch Thy sleep, slumb’ring Child.)Sleep on, Sleep on!(Sleep on, Sleep, Thou little Child!)(Sleep on, Sleep on!)
In the hymnals
- The words are in 1 hymnal 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.