| And the stars were shining
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| Distant bells were ringing
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| Heavenly voices were singing
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| All through the night, all through the night
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| Angels we have heard on high
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| Sweetly singing o’er the plains
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| And the mountain in reply
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| Echoing their joyous strains
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| Gloria in Excelsis Deo
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| Gloria in Excelsis Deo
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| (Shepherds why this jubilee?
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| Why your joyous strains prolong?
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| Say what may the tidings be
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| Which inspire your heavenly song?)
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| Gloria in Excelsis Deo
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| Gloria in Excelsis Deo
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| Come to Bethlehem and see
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| Him Whose birth the angels sing
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| Come, adore on bended knee
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| Christ the Lord, the newborn King
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| (Gloria in Excelsis Deo)
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| Angels we have heard on high
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| Sweetly singing o’er the plains
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| And the mountain in reply
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| Echoing their joyous strains
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| Gloria in Excelsis Deo
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| Gloria in Excelsis Deo (In Excelsis, In Excelsis Deo, In Excelsis,
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| In Excelsis Deo)
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| Joy to the world, the Lord has come
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| Let earth receive her King
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| Let every heart prepare Him room
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| And heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing
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| And heaven, and heaven and nature sing
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| (Joy to the world, the Savior reigns
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| Let men their songs employ)
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| While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
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| (Repeat the sounding joy) The sounding joy
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| (Repeat the sounding joy) Repeat the sounding joy
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| (Repeat) Repeat the sounding joy
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| He rules the world with truth and grace
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| And makes the nations prove
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| The glories of His righteousness
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| And wonders of His love, and wonders of His love
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| And wonders, wonders of His love
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| Joy to the world, the Lord has come
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| Let earth receive her King
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| Let every heart prepare Him room
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| And heaven and nature sing (nature sing), and heaven and nature sing (nature
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| sing)
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| (And heaven) And heaven and nature sing
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| And the stars were shining
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| Distant bells were ringing
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| Heavenly voices singing
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| All through the night |