A new carol for Christmas...
Remember my recent poetry post? And that I said I sometimes put new words to old hymns and carols? Well, here's a carol I wrote back in 2011; it's being sung at church - on Christmas Day - for the first time ever!
If you don't know the tune for the original, Jesus is Lord, follow this link... (though I'd sing it a bit quicker!) If you like my carol and would like to use it in your church, please just drop me a line to let me know. All I ask is that you credit me with the words.
If you don't know the tune for the original, Jesus is Lord, follow this link... (though I'd sing it a bit quicker!) If you like my carol and would like to use it in your church, please just drop me a line to let me know. All I ask is that you credit me with the words.
Jesus is born! (Tune ‘Jesus is Lord’ by David J Mansell)
Jesus is born! We
see him in the manger
Babe’s precious
head
Laid in a bed
Of wood and straw
Jesus is born!
With song we now
declare it
God’s gift of love
for all
To bridge heaven
and earth
Jesus is born! Jesus
is born!
Sing joyful
alleluias for Jesus is born.
Jesus is born!
The first ‘noel’ is
sounded
Heaven is rent
With angels sent
To shepherds poor
Jesus is born!
‘Go now and see the
baby
Glory to God in
heaven
And peace to you
all’
Jesus is born! Jesus
is born!
Sing joyful
alleluias for Jesus is born.
Jesus is born!
Celestial news
confirms it
Up in the sky
Star way up high
Tells of the birth
Jesus is born!
Three kings leave
all to follow
Bringing their
precious gifts
to the new baby
king
Jesus is born! Jesus
is born!
Sing joyful
alleluias for Jesus is born.
Jesus is born!
And still God tries
to reach us
Calling afresh
To men of flesh
To come to him
Jesus is born!
God’s love forgives
us freely
Taking away our
tears
And then setting us
free
Jesus is born! Jesus
is born!
Sing joyful
alleluias for Jesus is born.
Katherine Hetzel 2011
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| The Nativity, BBC 2010 |