A Babe is Born in Bethlehem
For Christmas
Version 2
Compare: Version 1
Words: 14th Century Latin hymn, Puer natus in Bethlehem
Translation by P. H. Schaff
Music: "Puer Natus in Bethlehem" from Wittenberger Gesangbuch
MIDI / Noteworthy Composer / XML
Source: O. Hardwig, ed., The Wartburg Hymnal (Chicago: Wartburg Publishing House, 1918), #90
1. A Babe is Born in Bethlehem,
In Bethlehem
Therefore rejoice, Jerusalem.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
2. He doth within a manger lie,
A manger lie
Whose throne is set above the sky,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
3. Stillness was all the manger round,
The manger round,
The creature its Creator found,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
4. The wise men came, led by the star,
Led by the star,
God, myrrh, and incense brought from far,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
5. His mother is the virgin mild,
The virgin mild,
And He the Father’s only Child,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
6. Like us, in flesh of human frame,
Of human frame,
Unlike in sin alone He came,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
7. The Holy Trinity be praised,
Hallelujah
To God our ceaseless thanks be raised,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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Another source adds the following verse:
On this most blessed Jubilee,
Jubilee,
All glory be, O God, to Thee.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
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Sheet Music from Charles L. Hutchins, Carols Old and Carols New (Boston: Parish Choir, 1916), #463
Sheet Music from "Puer Natus" from Wittenberger Gesangbuch from O. Hardwig, ed., The Wartburg Hymnal (Chicago: Wartburg Publishing House, 1918), #89
Sheet Music by L. M. Lindeman from O. Hardwig, ed., The Wartburg Hymnal (Chicago: Wartburg Publishing House, 1918), #90