1 Gather around the Christmas tree!
Gifts for the many its branches hold;
Gather around the Christmas tree!
Come with rejoicing, both young and old;
Welcome the gladsome Christmas time!
Dear to our hearts this happy scene!
Come, for these gifts of love are thine,
Loading the branches so fresh and green.
Refrain:
Gather, gather,
Gather around the Christmas tree.
Gather, gather,
Gather around the Christmas tree.
2 Gather around the Christmas tree!
Come with joy beaming from eyes so bright!
Gather around the Christmas tree!
Merrily singing with pure delight;
Never forget the tokens fair,
Parents and teachers here bestow;
Never forget the tender care,
Watching and cherishing you below. [Refrain]
3 Gather around the Christmas tree!
Here we have presents for great and small;
Gather around the Christmas tree!
Thanking the Lord who hath given all;
Think of the Savior crucified,
Sent as the Father’s gift to men;
Flee to the blest Redeemer’s side,
Never to wander from Him again. [Refrain]
Source: The Cyber Hymnal #16076
Rv Eden Reeder Latta USA 1839-1915. Born at Haw Patch, IN, the son of a Methodist minister, (also a boyhood friend of hymn writer Willam A Ogden) he became a school teacher. During the American Civil War he preached for the Manchester Methodist Church and other congregations (possibly as a circuit rider filling empty pulpits). In 1863 he married Mary Elizabeth Wright, and they had five children: Arthur, Robert, Jennie, two others. He taught for the public schools of Manchester, and later Colesburg, IA. He moved to Guttenberg, IA, in the 1890s, and continued writing song lyrics for several major gospel composers, including William Ogden, James McGranahan, James Fillmore, and Edmund Lorenz. He wrote 1600+ songs and hymns, many being wi… Go to person page >
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