Angels We Have Heard on High / Joy to the World - Michael Crawford, Георг Фридрих Гендель

And the stars were shining

Distant bells were ringing

Heavenly voices were singing

All through the night, all through the night

Angels we have heard on high

Sweetly singing o’er the plains

And the mountain in reply

Echoing their joyous strains

Gloria in Excelsis Deo

Gloria in Excelsis Deo

(Shepherds why this jubilee?

Why your joyous strains prolong?

Say what may the tidings be

Which inspire your heavenly song?)

Gloria in Excelsis Deo

Gloria in Excelsis Deo

Come to Bethlehem and see

Him Whose birth the angels sing

Come, adore on bended knee

Christ the Lord, the newborn King

(Gloria in Excelsis Deo)

Angels we have heard on high

Sweetly singing o’er the plains

And the mountain in reply

Echoing their joyous strains

Gloria in Excelsis Deo

Gloria in Excelsis Deo (In Excelsis, In Excelsis Deo, In Excelsis,

In Excelsis Deo)

Joy to the world, the Lord has 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 Savior reigns

Let men their songs employ)

While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains

(Repeat the sounding joy) The sounding joy

(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, wonders of His love

Joy to the world, the Lord has come

Let earth receive her King

Let every heart prepare Him room

And heaven and nature sing (nature sing), and heaven and nature sing (nature

sing)

(And heaven) And heaven and nature sing

And the stars were shining

Distant bells were ringing

Heavenly voices singing

All through the night