Once In Royal David's City

Once In Royal David's City - Voces8/Nigel Short

Once in royal davids 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 saviour holy

Not in that poor lowly stable

With the oxen standing by

We shall see him but in heaven

Set at god's right hand on high

Where like stars his children crowned

All in white shall wait around