Once in Royal David's City

编曲 : John Rutter

制作人 : Brian B. Culverhouse

指挥家 : John Rutter

诗人 : Cecil Frances Alexander

音频工程师 : John Holland/Stuart Eltham

管风琴 : Jeremy Blandford

弦乐团 : Clare College Orchestra

和声 : Clare College Singers

Once in royal David’s City

1. Once in royal David's 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.

2. 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 Savior holy.

3. But our eyes in truth should see him

Through his own redeeming love,

For that child so dear and gentle

Is our Lord in heaven above,

As he leads his children on

To the place where he is gone.

Not in that poor lowly stable

With the oxen standing by

Shall we se him, but in heaven,

Set at god’s right hand on high.

Then like stars his children, crowned,

All in white, his praise will sound!