Scripture Verse

Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. Luke 2:11

Introduction

Words: Mar­ga­ret C. Brown, 1901. Ap­pear­ed in Jun­ior Car­ols (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts & Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: Unit­ed So­ci­ety of Chris­tian En­dea­vor, 1906), num­ber 18.

Music: Oba­di­ah B. Brown (🔊 pdf nwc).

If you know where to get a good pho­to of Mar­ga­ret or Oba­di­ah Brown (head & shoul­ders, at least 200×300 pix­els),

Lyrics

illustration

Bells of Christ­mas, swing!
Bells of Christ­mas, ring!
Throbbing high up in the stee­ple,
Bringing joy to all the peo­ple;
Children, join your lay,
On this Christ­mas day;
Tell again the won­drous sto­ry:
Christ the Lord is born!

Bells of Chris­tmas, swing!
Bells of Christ­mas, ring!
Sound afar the old sweet sto­ry
Of the man­ger Babe, whose glo­ry
Filled the ho­ly night
With the shin­ing light,
While the joy­ous an­gels car­oled,
Christ the Lord is born!

Bells of Christ­mas, swing!
Bells of Chris­tmas, ring!
Round the world your mu­sic fling­ing,
Keep the an­gels’ song still ring­ing;
Hearts with warm love thrill,
Joyously we trill
The glad song the an­gels taught us:
Christ the Lord is born!