Once in royal David’s city

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Title: Once in royal David's city
Text: Cecil Frances Alexander, 1848, alt.
Tune: IRBY
Music: Henry John Gauntlett, 1849; arr. Arthur Henry Mann, 1919
Key: F major
Meter: 87.87.77
Date Added: 2021/03/21

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Once in royal David's city
stood a lowly cattle shed,
where a mother laid her baby
in a manger for his bed:
Mary was that mother mild;
Jesus Christ, her little child.

He came down to earth from heaven
who is God and Lord of all,
and his shelter was a stable,
and his cradle was a stall;
with the poor and meek and lowly,
lived on earth our Savior holy.

And our eyes at last shall see him,
through his own redeeming love;
for that child so dear and gentle
is our Lord in heav'n above;
and he leads his children on
to the place where he is gone.

Not in that poor lowly stable
with the oxen standing by,
we shall see him, but in heaven
set at God's right hand on high;
when like stars, his children crowned
all in white, shall wait around.