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"Angels We Have Heard On High" Lyrics

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Angels we have heard on high

EVERY TIME AWAY FROM YOU
I HAVE YOU IN MY DREAM
COSE THAT S THE ONELY WAY THAT I HOULD YOU
Oh...HEAR MY PREY,

FOR EVERY STEP I TAKE
I LEAVE A TRACE FOR YOU TO GO
SO THAT YOU CAN FIND ME WHEREVER
ON THIS PLANET I MIGHT BE , AND YOU BE STRONG, BE STRONG

THEN IF WE ARE APART
LISTEN TO YOUR HEART
COSE THER WILL NEVER BE
SOMETHING THAT CAN TAKE ORE LOVE AWAY

AND WHEN WE GATHERD THER
I WILL NOT FORGET
THAT YOU ARE ALL MY CARE
FROM NOW AND TILL THE END OF TIME , WITH YOU

IF YOU HEAR ANGELS SING
A SIMPEL MELODI
THEN IT'S JUST FOR YOU
FOR YOU TO NOW, I MISS YOU SO

COME, TAKE MY HAND
AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND
THAT ANGELS NEVER LIE
EWERY WORD THEY SAY IS TRO , MISS YOU

EVERY MORNING YOU WILL FIND
ME LAYING THER, THER BY YOU SIDE
AND FEAL MY BEAT GO ON AND ON
JUST LIKE MY SONG

COME, CAN YOU FEAL MY HEART
EVERY BEAT IT MAKES
IS FOR YOU TO TAKE
AND WE'LL BE THER FOR EVER AND EVER
WE WILL BE THER TOGETHER,
TOGETHER FOR EVER WE WILL BE,
AND WE'LL SHEAR IT TOGETHER
THEN WE HAVE ORE DREAM
THEN WE LIVE ORE DREAM...

NOW I LOVE YOU EVEN MOOR

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AddedSeptember 24th, 2012
Last updatedMarch 31st, 2022
About"Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol of French origin. The song commemorates the story of the birth of Jesus Christ found in the Gospel of Luke, in which shepherds outside Bethlehem encounter a multitude of angels singing and praising the newborn child.

The words of the song are based on a traditional French carol known as Les Anges dans nos campagnes (literally, "The Angels in our countryside") composed by an unknown author in Languedoc, France. That song has received many adjustments or alignments including its most common English version that was translated in 1862 by James Chadwick, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, northeast England. The carol quickly became popular in the West Country, where it was described as 'Cornish' by R.R. Chope, and featured in Pickard-Cambridge's Collection of Dorset Carols.

There is also a Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) translation of the carol which is known as Ainglean chuala sinn gu h-ard (literally, "Angels We Have Heard on High"). This was translated into Gaelic by Iain MacMilan from James Chadwick's English translation. It has since been re-translated by world-renowned bassist Joseph Schlegel and his cohorts the Rowdy Bunch. It has been said that this translation spurred a Christian revivalist movement in the north metro area of Denver, Colorado

"Angels We Have Heard on High" is most commonly sung to the hymn tune "Gloria", as arranged by Edward Shippen Barnes. Its most memorable feature is its chorus:

Gloria in Excelsis Deo! (Latin for "Glory to God in the highest")
Where the sung vowel sound "o" of "Gloria" is fluidly sustained through a lengthy rising and falling melismatic melodic sequence:
Glo-o-o-o-o-O-o-o-o-o-O-o-o-o-o-O-ri-a in Ex-cel-sis De-o!
"Gloria in Excelsis Deo" is the first line of the song of the angels in the Gospel according to Luke.

The phrase also appears melismatically in the Latin version of the carol "O Come All Ye Faithful", though somewhat less extended:
Glo-o-o-O-ri-a in Ex-cel-sis De-o.

In England, the words of James Montgomery's "Angels from the Realms of Glory" are sung to this tune, except with the "Gloria in excelsis Deo" refrain. It is from this usage that the tune sometimes is known as Iris, the name of Montgomery's newspaper.

In the English version of "O Come All Ye Faithful", that phrase is poetically translated as Glo-ry to Go-od, Glo-ry in the High-est, (or, "Glo-ry to Go-od, In-- the-- High-est"), reducing the melisma to no more than two notes per word.

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