Once In Royal Davids City - The Choirs Of Britains Cathedrals Perform

[00:01.38]Once in royal David's city,
[00:08.58]Stood a lowly cattle shed,
[00:15.78]Where a mother laid her Baby,
[00:23.45]In a manger for His bed:
[00:30.92]Mary was that mother mild,
[00:38.33]Jesus Christ, her little Child.
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[00:47.04]He came down to earth from heaven,
[00:55.10]Who is God and Lord of all,
[01:03.39]And His shelter was a stable,
[01:11.06]And His cradle was a stall:
[01:19.45]With the poor, and mean, and lowly,
[01:27.22]Lived on earth our Saviour holy.
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[01:38.82]And through all His wondrous childhood;
[01:46.67]Day by day, like us, He grew;
[01:54.65]He was little, weak, and helpless,
[02:02.52]Tears and smiles, like us He knew;
[02:10.46]And He feeleth for our sadness,
[02:18.71]And He shareth in our gladness.
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[02:29.50]And our eyes at last shall see Him,
[02:37.28]Through His own redeeming love;
[02:45.34]For that Child so dear and gentle,
[02:53.12]Is our Lord in heaven above:
[03:01.28]And He leads His children on,
[03:09.06]To the place where He is gone.
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[03:20.00]Not in that poor lowly stable,
[03:27.79]With the oxen standing by,
[03:35.26]We shall see Him; but in heaven,
[03:43.24]Set at God's right hand on high;
[03:51.04]Where like stars His children crowned
[03:59.05]All in white shall wait around.