The Friendly Beasts

The Friendly Beasts - The Clarke Family

Jesus our brother kind and good

Was humbly born in a stable rude

And the friendly beasts around him stood

Jesus our brother kind and good

Said the donkey shaggy and brown

I carried his mother up hill and down

I carried his mother to bethlehem town

The said the donkey shaggy and brown

Said the cow all white and red

I gave him my manger for her bed

I gave him my hay to pillow his head

The said the cow all white and red

Said the sheep with the curly horn

I gave him my wool for his blanket warm

He wore my coat on christmas more

The said the sheep with the curly horn

Thus every beast by some glad spell

In the stable dark was glad to tell

Of the gift he gave emmanuel

Of the gift he gave emmanuel