Celebrating Grace Hymnal ‎#125

125. Angels We Have Heard on High

1 Angels we have heard on high
sweetly singing o'er the plains,
And the mountains in reply
echoing their joyous strains.

Refrain:
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Gloria in excelsis Deo!

2 Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
which inspire your heavenly song? [Refrain]

3 Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing;
come, adore on bended knee,
Christ the Lord, the newborn King. [Refrain]

4 See Him in a manger laid,
whom the choirs of angels praise;
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
while our hearts in love we raise. [Refrain]

Text Information

• First Line: Angels we have heard on high
• Title: Angels We Have Heard on High
• Refrain First Line: Gloria in excelsis Deo!
• Meter: 7.7.7.7
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2010
• Scripture:
  Luke 2:8-16
• Topic: God the Son: Christmastide; Christian Year-Christmastide
• Source: Trad. French carol; Tr. Crown of Jesus, 1862

Tune Information

• Name: GLORIA
• Arranger: Edward Shippen Barnes (1937)
• Harmonizer: Austin Lovelace (1964)
• Meter: 7.7.7.7
• Key: F Major
• Source: Trad. French carol
• Copyright: Harm. © 1964 Abingdon Press, admin. By The Copyright Company, Nashville, TN, 37212