Once in Royal David's City-Christmas Friends

[ti:Once in Royal David's City] [ar:Christmas Friends] [al:Holy Christmas Chorus Favorites] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Once in Royal David's City - Christmas Friends [00:01.33]Once in Royal David's city [00:08.50]Stood a lowly cattle shed [00:15.26] [00:15.98]Where a mother laid her Baby [00:23.06] [00:23.71]In a manger for his bed [00:30.93] [00:31.79]Mary was that mother mild [00:39.18] [00:39.73]Jesus Christ her little child [00:47.38] [00:49.48]He came down to earth from Heaven [00:56.61] [00:57.21]Who is God and Lord of all [01:03.98] [01:04.96]And his shelter was a stable [01:11.94] [01:12.60]And his cradle was a stall [01:19.34] [01:20.54]With the poor and mean and lowly [01:27.82] [01:28.72]Lived on earth our Saviour holy [01:37.13] [01:39.44]And through all his wondrous childhood [01:46.41] [01:47.04]He would honor and obey [01:53.82] [01:54.67]Love and watch the lowly maiden [02:01.38] [02:01.96]In whose gentle arms he lay [02:08.73] [02:09.81]Christian children all must be [02:16.49] [02:17.42]Mild obedient good as he [02:24.95] [02:27.75]And our eyes at last shall see him [02:34.91] [02:35.50]Through his own redeeming love [02:42.63] [02:43.24]For that Child so dear and gentle [02:50.64] [02:51.34]Is our Lord in Heaven above [02:58.36] [02:59.42]And he leads his children on [03:07.21]To the place where he is gone [03:16.30] [03:18.29]Not in that poor lowly stable [03:25.49] [03:26.11]With the oxen standing by [03:33.26] [03:33.93]We shall see him but in Heaven [03:41.48] [03:42.01]Set at God's right hand on high [03:49.40] [03:50.15]Where like stars his children crowned [03:57.27] [03:58.06]All in white shall wait around