LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 7 8 7 7 7
| | Writer(s): | Cecil Frances (Humphreys) Alexander
| | Transl/Adapt: |
| | Dates: | 1848
| | Bible Refs: | Lk 2:4; Lk 2:7; Lk 2:51; Heb 4:15; Lk 2:11
| Anglican Hymn Book 1965
| 1965
| 107
| Australian Hymn Book/With One Voice
| 1977
| 237
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 1962
| 106
| Church Family Worship
| 1988
| 646
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1919
| 1919
| 631
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1960
| 1960
| 624
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 2000
| 2000
| 177
| Church Hymnal Revised
| 1920
| 605
| Common Praise (Anglican C. of Canada)
| 1998
| 123
| Common Praise: Hymns Ancient & Modern
| 2000
| 66
| Complete Mission Praise
| 2000
| 539
| Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
| 1996
| 139
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Edition
| 1904
| 566
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Standard
| 1983
| 46
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, Revised
| 1950
| 432
| Hymns Ancient & Modern, Standard
| 1922
| 329
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 1983
| 114
| Hymns for Today's Church 2
| 1988
| 67
| Hymns for Worship and Celebration
|
| 155
| Hymns of Faith
| 1964
| 156
| Hymns Old & New, Complete Anglican Editi
| 2000
| 521
| Hymns Old & New, New Anglican Edition
| 1996
| 403
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 1954
| 859
| Mirfield Mission Hymn Book
| 1955
| 206
| New English Hymnal
| 1985
| 34
| Oxford Hymn Book
| 1925
| 176
| Presbyterian Hymn Book
| 1990
| 49
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
|
| 32
| Sing Glory
| 1999
| 359
| Songs of Fellowship 1
| 1991
| 438
| Songs of Praise
| 1925
| 435
| Songs of Praise, Enlarged Edition
| 1931
| 368
| STELBAP
|
| 649
| The Book of Common Praise
| 1908
| 712
| The Book of Common Praise - Revised
| 1938
| 733
| The Church Hymnal for the Christian Year
| 1917
| 2049
| The English Hymnal
| 1906
| 605
| The Hymn Book of Angl & Unit Ch Canada
| 1971
| 112
| The Hymnal 1916
| 1916
| 349
| The Hymnal 1940
| 1940
| 236
| The Hymnal 1982
| 1982
| 102
| Together in Song: The Australian HB II
| 1999
| 312
| Trinity Hymnal
| 1961
| 639
| United Methodist Hymn Book
| 1989
| 250
|
MUSIC
Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary
| 139
| No key
| Hymns for Worship and Celebration
| 155
| F
| Hymns of Faith
| 156
| F
| Songs of Fellowship 1
| 438
| F
| Baptist Hymn Book
| 106
| G
| Sacred Songs & Solos: Revised and enlarg
| 32
| G
| Hymns and Psalms with SA Sup.
| 114
| G
| Methodist Hymn Book - Hymns
| 859
| G
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| 1. Once in royal David's city,
Stood a lowly cattle shed,
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 of all,
And His shelter was a stable,
And His cradle was a stall:
With the poor and meek 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 mother
In whose gentle arms He lay.
Christian children all should be
Mild, obedient, good as He.
4. We, like Mary, rest confounded
that a stable should display
heaven's Word, the world's creator,
cradled there on Christmas Day,
yet this child, our Lord and brother,
brought us love for one another.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
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