Words: Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht!, Rev. Joseph Mohr, 1816
Translator: Jane Montgomery Campbell, 1863
Version 3
Compare: Holy Night, Peaceful Night - Version 1
Holy Night, Peaceful Night - Version 2
Music "Stille Nacht," by Franz Gruber, 1818
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Source: The Book Of Common Praise (Oxford: University Press, 1909), #742.
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1. Holy night! peaceful night!
All is dark, save the light
Yonder, where they sweet vigils keep
O'er the Babe, who, in silent sleep;
Rests in heav'nly peace,
Rests in heav'nly peace.
2. Silent night! peaceful night!
Only for shepherds' sight
Came blest visions of angel throngs,
With their loud alleluia songs,
Saying, Christ is come.
Saying, Christ is come.
3. Silent night! peaceful night!
Child of heaven, O how bright
Thou didst smile on us when Thou wast born,
Blest indeed was that happy morn,
Full of heavenly joy,
Full of heavenly joy.
Sheet Music from Charles L. Hutchins, ed., Sunday-School Hymnal and Service Book. Boston: The Parish Choir, 1892, #495.
There was no attribution for lyrics or musical setting.
Sheet Music from Henry Sloane Coffin and Ambrose White Vernon, eds., Hymns of the Kingdom of God. New York: The A. S. Barnes Company, 1910, #468
Additional musical setting by H. A. L. Peabody (New York: Oliver Ditson & Co., 1885)
No credit to Miss Campbell was given on the sheet music.
Source of the sheet music is
the Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division,
America Singing: Nineteenth-Century Song Sheets.
(American Memory, Performing Arts-Music)
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