Song 6 in The Christmas Songbook
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Also known as: Mendelssohn
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For The Christmas Songbook (piano edition).
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For The Christmas Songbook (guitar edition).
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Recorder
For The Christmas Songbook (recorder edition).
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All the words
Hark! The herald angels sing,
Glory to the newborn King;
Peace on Earth, and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled!
Joyful, all ye nations rise,
Join the triumph of the skies;
With th'angelic host proclaim
Christ is born in Bethlehem!
Hark! the herald angels sing,
Glory to the new born king!Christ, by highest heaven adored,
Christ, the everlasting Lord!
Come, Desire of Nations, come,
Fix in us thy humble home.
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
Hail th'Incarnate Deity,
Pleased as man with men to dwell;
Jesus, Our Emmanuel!
Hark! the herald angels sing,
Glory to the new born king!Hail, the heav'n born Prince of Peace!
Hail the sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all he brings,
Risen with healing in his wings;
Mild he lays his glory by,
Born that man no more may die,
Born to raise the sons of earth,
Born to give them second birth;
Hark! the herald angels sing,
Glory to the new born king!
About this song
- Music
- Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), adapted by William H. Cummings (1831–1915)
- Words
- Charles Wesley (1707–1788), altered by George Whitefield (1714–1770) and others
- First published
- Text 1739 (Hymns and Sacred Poems); tune from Mendelssohn's Festgesang (1840), fitted to these words by Cummings 1855–1856
- Copyright
- Public domain in the US, UK and EU. The arrangement and recordings belong to the book.