Once in Royal David鈥檚 City
Sing along with the piano backing track for this traditional carol.
Sing along with Wayne Marshall's improvised piano backing track for this traditional Christmas song - part of Radio 3's Christmas Carols Karaoke!
Lyrics
Once in Royal David鈥檚 City
Once in royal David鈥檚 city
stood a lowly cattle shed,
where a Mother laid her baby
in a manger for his bed;
Mary was that Mother mild,
Jesus Christ her little child.
He came down to earth from heaven
who is God and Lord of all,
and his shelter was a stable,
and his cradle was a stall;
with the poor and mean and lowly
lived on earth our Saviour holy.
And our eyes at last shall see him
through his own redeeming love,
for that child, so dear and gentle,
is our Lord in heaven above;
and he leads his children on
to the place where he is gone.
Not in that poor, lowly stable
with the oxen standing by
we shall see him, but in heaven,
set at God鈥檚 right hand on high;
when, like stars, his children, crowned,
all in white shall wait around.
