Christmas
To Us A Child Of Hope Is Born
- Words:
- John Morrison
- Music:
- Lowell Mason
Sheet music
- 1To us a Child of hope is born,To us a Son is giv’n;Him shall the tribes of earth obey,Him, all the hosts of heav’n;Him shall the tribes of earth obey,Him, all the hosts of heav’n.
- 2His Name shall be the Prince of Peace,For evermore adorned,The Wonderful, the Counselor,The great and mighty Lord!The Wonderful, the Counselor,The great and mighty Lord!
- 3His pow’r, increasing, still shall spread,His reign no end shall know;Justice shall guard His throne above,And peace abound below;Justice shall guard His throne above,And peace abound below.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1781, the words are in 288 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.