In the lit­tle vil­lage of Beth­le­hem,
There lay a child one day;
And the sky was bright with a ho­ly light
O’er the place where Je­sus lay.

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Alleluia! O how the an­gels sang.
Alleluia! How it rang!
And the sky was bright with a ho­ly light
’Twas the birth­day of a king.

’Twas a humb­le birth­place, but O how much
God gave to us that day,
From the man­ger bed what a path has led,
What a per­fect, holy way.

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