Description
This exuberant Christmas anthem in triple meter begins with a sparkling accompaniment and builds to climaxes of great festivity, with exuberant alleluias and a refrain of "Come, join the angel throng in songs of joy."
Anthem text
A child is born in bethlehem, Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Therefore rejoice Jerusalem, Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Refrain
Come, join the angel throng
in songs of joy,
in one accord
adoring Christ the Lord.
The babe within a manger poor,
will rule the world for evermore. Refrain
Upon this joyful Holy night,
we bless your Name,
O Lord of Light, Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
We praise you, Holy Trinity, Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
adoring you eternaly. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia! Refrain
–Puer natus Bethlehem, Latin, 14th cent., tr. Ruth Fox Hume.
Tr. © 1964 GIA Publications, Inc.
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