Christmas
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
- Words:
- Nahum Tate
- Music:
- Hugh Wilson
Sheet music
- 1While shepherds watched their flocks by night,All seated on the ground,The angel of the Lord came down,And glory shone around.“Fear not,” said he (for mighty dreadHad seized their troubled mind;)“Glad tidings of great joy I bring,To you and all mankind.
- 2“All glory be to God on high,And to the earth be peace:Good-will hence-forth from heav’n to menBegin and never cease.”
In the hymnals
- Written in 1700, the words are in 1,206 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.