Thanks for being a Hymnary.org user. You are one of more than 10 million people from 200-plus countries around the world who have benefitted from the Hymnary website in 2024! If you feel moved to support our work today with a gift of any amount and a word of encouragement, we would be grateful.

You can donate online at our secure giving site.

Or, if you'd like to make a gift by check, please make it out to CCEL and mail it to:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
And may the promise of Advent be yours this day and always.

Click here to donate to Hymnary.org I have already donated. Please don't show this to me again
Text:The Child and the Shepherd
Author:Frank Sewall, 1837-1915
Tune:[O tell me, gentle shepherd]
Composer:Frank Sewall, 1837-1915
Media:MIDI file

811. The Child and the Shepherd

1. O tell me, gentle shepherd,
Gentle shepherd, gentle shepherd,
O tell me what the angels sang
In the early Christmas morn.
O tell me what the angels sang
In the early Christmas morn.

2. O listen, happy children,
Happy children, happy children,
While I tell you what the angels sang
In the early Christmas morn.
Fear ye not, I bring good tidings,
For today the Lord is born!

3. O tell me, gentle shepherd,
Gentle shepherd, gentle shepherd,
What the great bright host of angels sang,
All out in the fields so still.
What the great bright host of angels sang,
All out in the fields so still.

4. I will tell you, Christian children,
Christian children, Christian children,
What the great bright host of angels sang,
All out in the fields so still:
Glory in the highest, glory!
Peace on earth, to all goodwill!

5. Let us keep, then, happy Christmas,
Happy Christmas, happy Christmas,
Children, shepherds, folks, and angels
All the blest song repeating still:
Glory in the highest, glory!
Peace on earth, to all goodwill!

Text Information
First Line: O tell me, gentle shepherd
Title: The Child and the Shepherd
Author: Frank Sewall, 1837-1915
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: [O tell me, gentle shepherd]
Composer: Frank Sewall, 1837-1915 (1869)
Incipit: 12343 22113 43224
Key: E Major
Copyright: Public Domain



Media
Adobe Acrobat image: Adobe Acrobat image
(Cyber Hymnal)
MIDI file: MIDI File
(Cyber Hymnal)
Noteworthy Composer score: Noteworthy Composer score
(Cyber Hymnal)
XML score: XML score

Suggestions or corrections? Contact us
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.