Introduction
Words: Eugene Field (1850–1895).
Music: Pueblo Mari R. Hofer, in Primary and Junior Songs for the Sunday School (Chicago, Illinois: Clayton F. Summy, 1901), number 40 (🔊 pdf nwc).
Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked,
Matthew 2:1–2Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?
Words: Eugene Field (1850–1895).
Music: Pueblo Mari R. Hofer, in Primary and Junior Songs for the Sunday School (Chicago, Illinois: Clayton F. Summy, 1901), number 40 (🔊 pdf nwc).
Why do bells at Christmas ring?
Why do little children sing?
Once a lovely shining star
Seen by wise men from afar,
Gently moved until its light
Made a manger cradle bright.
There a darling baby lay,
Pillowed soft upon the hay;
And the mother sang and smiled,
This is Christ, the holy Child!
Therefore bells at Christmas ring;
Therefore little children sing.