Once in Royal David's City-Songs For Children

[ti:Once In Royal David's City] [ar:Songs For Children] [al:Christmas Nativity] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Once in Royal David's City - Songs For Children [00:09.35]Once in royal davids city [00:13.30]Stood a lowly cattle shed [00:17.49]Where a mother laid her baby [00:21.74]In a manger for his bed [00:25.52] [00:26.06]Mary was that mother mild [00:30.36]Jesus christ her little child [00:34.34] [00:39.07]He came down to earth from heaven [00:43.08]Who is god and lord of all [00:46.86] [00:47.41]And his shelter was a stable [00:51.70]And his cradle was a stall [00:56.00]With the poor and mean and lowly [01:00.26]Lived on earth our saviour holy [01:04.11] [01:09.04]And through all his wondrous childhood [01:13.25]He would honor and obey [01:16.78] [01:17.43]Love and watch the lowly maiden [01:21.73]In whose gentle arms he lay [01:25.44] [01:25.95]Christian children all must be [01:29.65] [01:30.16]Mild obedient good as he [01:34.16] [01:39.13]For he is our childhoods pattern [01:42.67] [01:43.18]Day by day like us he grew [01:47.40]He was little weak and helpless [01:51.72]Tears and smiles like us he knew [01:55.43] [01:55.96]And he feeleth for our sadness [02:00.28]And he shareth in our gladness [02:04.80] [02:09.07]And our eyes at last shall see him [02:13.19]Through his own redeeming love [02:17.44]For that child so dear and gentle [02:21.12] [02:21.70]Is our lord in heavn above [02:25.47] [02:26.04]And he leads his children on [02:29.71] [02:30.25]To the place where he is gone [02:34.05] [02:39.16]Not in that poor lowly stable [02:42.55] [02:43.13]With the oxen standing by [02:46.90] [02:47.43]We shall see him but in heaven [02:51.21] [02:51.72]Set at gods right hand on high [02:55.45] [02:56.00]Where like stars his children crowned [02:59.72] [03:00.26]All in white shall wait around