The Friendly Beasts

The Friendly Beasts - Burl Ives (伯爾·艾夫斯)

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

I said the donkey or shaggy and brown

I carried his mother up hill and down

I carried his mother to bethlehem town

I said the donkey or shaggy and brown

I said the cow all white and red

I gave him my manger for his bed

I gave him my hay to pillow his head

I said the cow all white and red

I said the sheep with the curly horn

I gave him my wool for his blanket so warm

He wore my coat on christmas morn

I said the sheep with the curly horn

I said the dove from the rafters so high

I cooed him to sleep that he should not cry

We cooed him to sleep my love and i

I said the dove from the rafters so high

Thus every beast by some good spell

In the stable dark was glad to tell

Of the gifts they gave emmanuel

The gifts they gave emmanuel