Once in royal david's city stood a lowly cattle shed
Where a mother laid her baby in a manger for his bed
Mary was that mother mild, Jesus christ her little child
He came down to earth from heaven
Who is God and lord of all
And his shelter was a stable, and his cradle was a stall
With the poor and mean and lowly
Lived on earth our savior holy

But our eyes at last shall see him
Through his own redeeming love
For that child, so dear and gentle, is our lord in heav'n above
As he leads his children on to the place where he is gone
Not in that poor, lowly stable with the oxen standing by
Shall we see him, but in heaven, s
Et at God's right hand on high
Then like stars his children crowned
All in white, his praise will sound