Once in royal David's city - Gauntlett, Henry J.

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⌛ Period → Romantic ◈ Genre → Carols

♯ Key F major

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range F2 – D5

¶ Language → English

Measures 15

Texture mixed texture

Parts 3

Instruments A cappella or keyboard

Pages 1

CPDL # 61945

Editor Andrew Sims

Posted 2020-12-12

License CPDL License

♫Pitch Ranges

Midi_74

F2 – C4

¶Lyrics / Text

'''1.''' :Once in royal David's city :stood a lowly cattleshed, :where a mother laid her baby :in a manger for his bed: :Mary was that mother mild, :Jesus Christ her little child. '''2.''' :He came down to earth from heaven :Who is God and Lord af all, :And his shelter was a stable, :And his cradle was a stall. :With the poor and mean and lowly :Lived on earth our Saviour holy. '''3.''' :And through all his wondrous childhood :He would honour and obey, :Love and watch the lowly maiden, :In whose gentle arms he lay: :Christian children all must be :Mild, obedient, good as he. '''4.''' :For he is our childhood's pattern, :Day by day like us he grew, :He was little, weak, and helpless, :Tears and smiles like us he knew: :and he feeleth for our sadness, :And he shareth in our gladness. '''5.''' :And our eyes at last shall see him, :Through his own redeeming love, :For that child so dear and gentle :Is our Lord in heaven above; :And he leads his children on :to the place where he is gone. '''6.''' :Not in that poor lowly stable, :with the oxen standing by, :we shall see him; but in heaven, :Set at God's right hand on high; :When like stars his children crowned :all in white shall wait around.