Song 10 in The Christmas Songbook

Angels We Have Heard on High

Also known as: Gloria, Les Anges dans nos campagnes

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For The Christmas Songbook (ukulele edition).

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For The Christmas Songbook (kalimba edition).

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For The Christmas Songbook (recorder edition).

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Angels we have heard on high, Sweetly singing o'er our plains, And the mountains in reply,
Echoing their joyous strains.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your rapturous strain prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your heavenly song?
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Come to Bethlehem, and see
Him whose birth the angels sing;
Come, adore on bended knee
Christ the Lord, the new-born King.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
See Him in a manger laid,
Whom the choirs of angels praise;
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
While our hearts in love we raise.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.

Music: Traditional French carol melody (GLORIA)
Words: Traditional French; English paraphrase James Chadwick (1813–1882)
First published: French carol, 18th century; Chadwick's English text 1862 (Holy Family Hymns); as here in Carols Old and Carols New (Boston, 1916)
Copyright: Public domain in the US, UK and EU. The arrangement and recordings belong to the book.