Song 3 in The Christmas Songbook
Joy to the World
Also known as: Antioch
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Piano
For The Christmas Songbook (piano edition).
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Ukulele
For The Christmas Songbook (ukulele edition).
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Guitar
For The Christmas Songbook (guitar edition).
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Kalimba
For The Christmas Songbook (kalimba edition).
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Recorder
For The Christmas Songbook (recorder edition).
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All the words
Joy to the world! the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare him room,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and heaven and nature sing.Joy to the world! the Saviour reigns;
Let men their songs employ
While fields and floods,
rocks, hills and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of his righteousness,
And wonders of his love,
And wonders of his love
And wonders, and wonders of his love.
About this song
- Music
- Lowell Mason (1792–1872), tune ANTIOCH, arranged from themes in Handel's Messiah
- Words
- Isaac Watts (1674–1748)
- First published
- Text 1719 (The Psalms of David Imitated, Psalm 98); tune ANTIOCH 1836–1839 (Mason)
- Copyright
- Public domain in the US, UK and EU. The arrangement and recordings belong to the book.