The United Methodist Hymnal ‎#238

238. Angels We Have Heard on High

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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
Christ 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
• Meter: 77.77. with Refrain
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1989
• Scripture:
  Luke 2:6-20
• Topic: Christ's Gracious Life: Birth and Baptism; Christian Year: Christmas; Christian Year: Epiphany; Glory; Jesus Christ; Responses, Antiphonal
• Source: Traditional French carol; trans. Crown of Jesus,1852, alt.

Tune Information

• Name: GLORIA
• Arranger: Edward Shippen Barnes (1937)
• Harmonizer: Austin C. Lovelace (1964)
• Meter: 77.77. with Refrain
• Key: F Major
• Source: French carol melody
• Copyright: Harm. © 1964 Abingdon Press