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Play “O Little Town of Bethlehem”
Free same-meter accompaniment for O Little Town of Bethlehem (Phillips Brooks): organ, piano or guitar playing the tune KINGSFOLD (English) in four-part harmony, 4 verses, with the words on screen. Choose the key and speed, add an introduction, project the words on a TV, or practice your own choir part. Made for churches and home groups without a musician.
Sung here to KINGSFOLD (English), a Common Meter Double (8.6.8.6 D) tune — not necessarily the tune usually paired with this text. Any tune in the same meter fits the words.
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- 1O little town of Bethlehem!
- How still we see thee lie;
- Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
- The silent stars go by;
- Yet in thy dark streets shineth
- The everlasting Light;
- The hopes and fears of all the years
- Are met in thee tonight.
- 2For Christ is born of Mary,
- And gathered all above,
- While mortals sleep, the angels keep
- Their watch of wond'ring love.
- O morning stars, together
- Proclaim the holy birth
- And praises sing to God our King,
- And peace to men on earth!
- 3O holy Child of Bethlehem!
- Descend to us, we pray;
- Cast out our sin and enter in,
- Be born in us today.
- We hear the Christmas angels
- The great glad tidings tell;
- O come to us, abide with us,
- Our Lord Emmanuel.
- 4Amen.
About this music
KINGSFOLD — English. Text: Anthony Robertson, 2010. Music: 'Kingsfold' traditional English. Setting: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from The English Hymnal, 1906, Hymn 574.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the O Little Town of Bethlehem page.
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