paroles de chanson Once in Royal David's City (harm. A. H. Mann; descant Willcocks) (1985 Remastered Version) - King's College Choir, Cambridge, Cambridge King's College Choir, Ian Hare & Sir David Willcocks

Once in royal David's city
Stood a lowly cattle shed
Where a mother laid her baby
In a manger lowly spent
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 did shed upon the stable
And His cradle was a stall
With the poor, and mean, and lowly
Laid our Lord, our Saviour lowly

And through his mother's child-hood
He ruled o'er earth, and heaven
The hand watched the lowly babe
In whose gentle heart He reigned
Christ the King, the poor man's King
And poor is he that is not born again

For he is our child-hood's pattern
Gave by divine mercy true
He was little, weak, and helpless
Tears and smiles by mercy grew
And he feeleth all our sadness
And he shareth in our gladness

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

Lo, His cattle are in His stable
With the oxen standing by
Each shall see Him, but in heaven
Sit at God's right hand on high
Where like stars His children crowned
All in white shall wait around