Once In Royal Davids City

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[Verse 1]

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Once in royal David's city, stood a lowly cattle shed
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Where a mother laid her baby in a manger for his bed
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Mary was that mother mild
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Jesus Christ her little child


[Verse 2]

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He came down to earth from heaven, who is god and lord of all
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And his shelter was a stable and his cradle was a stall
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With the poor and meek and lowly
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Lived on earth our saviour holy


[Verse 3]

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And our eyes at last shall see him, through his own redeeming love
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For that child so dear and gentle, is our lord in heaven above
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And he leads his children on
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To the place where he is gone


[Verse 4]

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Not in that poor lowly stable, with the oxen standing by
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We shall see him, but in heaven, set at god's right hand on high
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There his children gather round
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Bright like stars, they glow him round


[Outro]

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Mary was that mother mild
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Jesus Christ her little child