Angels We Have
Heard on High

VERSE 1

Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o’er the plains,
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains.

REFRAIN

Gloria
In excelsis deo
Gloria
In excelsis deo

VERSE 2

Shepherds why this jubilee?
Why your joyous
strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your
heav’nly song?

VERSE 3

Come to Bethlehem and see
Him Whose birth the angels sing;
Come, adore on bended knee,
Christ the Lord, the newborn King.

VERSE 4

See him in a manger laid,
Whom the choirs of angels praise;
Mary, Joseph lend your aid
With us sing our Saviour’s birth.