Text:Sing We Merry Christmas
Author:C. T. Bowen
Tune:MERRY CHRISTMAS
Composer:C. T. Bowen
Media:MIDI file

6436. Sing We Merry Christmas

1. Sing we merry Christmas,
Christmas blithe and free!
Time of holy gladness,
Mirth and minstrelsy.
Hark! the merry church bells
Ringing joyously,
Hailing with sweet music
Christ’s nativity.

2. Haste we to the temple,
Wreathe our garlands green;
Deck each arch and column
For the festive scene.
Glory in the highest!
Hark the angels sing;
Glory in the highest
To our infant King!

3. Pastor, choir, and people
Join in concert all;
Sing your loudest praises
At our festival.
Joy for us poor exiles
Comes this happy morn;
Jesus our Emmanuel,
Christ, the Lord, is born!

Text Information
First Line: Sing we merry Christmas
Title: Sing We Merry Christmas
Author: C. T. Bowen (1894)
Meter: 11.11.11.11
Language: English
Source: Carols for Use in Church, by Richard R. Chope (London: William Clowes & Sons, Limited, 1894)
Copyright: Public Domain
Notes: Alternate tune: HERMAS, Frances R. Havergal, 1871
Tune Information
Name: MERRY CHRISTMAS
Composer: C. T. Bowen (1894)
Meter: 11.11.11.11
Incipit: 34515 32346 53451
Key: E♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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