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An Irish Christmas Angels We Have Heard On High
   
Credits: Traditional; arranged by Moya Brennan & Fionán deBarra
   
Appears On: An Irish Christmas (U.S. Release)
   
Language: English & Latin
   

Lyrics: English Translation:
   
Gloria... Glory...
   
Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o'er the plains
And the mountains in reply
Echo back their joyous strains
 
   
Chorus:  
Gloria in excelsis Deo Glory to God in the highest
Gloria in excelsis Deo Glory to God in the highest
   
Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
Say what may the tidings be
Which inspire your heavenly song?
 
   
(Chorus)  
   
Gloria... Glory...
   
Come to Bethlehem and see
Him, whose birth the angels sing
Come, adore on bended knee
Christ the Lord, the newborn King
 
   
(Chorus)  
   
See within a manger laid
Jesus, Lord of Heaven and earth
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid
With us sing our Savior's birth
 
   
(Chorus)  
   
Gloria... Glory...