Angels we have heard on high   Sweetly singing o'er the plains   And the mountains in reply   Echoing their joyous strains      Shepherds, why this jubilee?   Why your joyous strains prolong?   What the glad song's tidings breathe   Which inspire your heavenly song?      Gloria in excelsis Deo   Gloria in excelsis Deo      Come to Bethlehem and see   Christ whose birth the angels sing   Come adore on bended knee   Christ the Lord, the newborn King      See Him in a manger laid   Whom the choirs of angels praise   Mary, Joseph, lend your aid   While our hearts in love we raise      How could Heaven's heart not break   On the day, the day that You came?   Salvation's reason to celebrate   On the day, the day that You came      Gloria, gloria, gloria