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<title>Once in Royal David's City</title>
<lyrics>[V1]
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 Once in royal David's city,
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 stood a lowly cattle shed
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 Where a mother laid her baby,
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 in a manger for His bed
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 Mary was that mother mild,
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 Jesus Christ her little child

[V2]
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 He came down to earth from heaven,
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 who is God and Lord of all
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 And His shelter was a stable,
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 and His cradle was a stall
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 With the poor and mean and lowly,
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 lived on earth our Saviour holy

[V3]
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 And through all His wondrous childhood,
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 He would honour and obey
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 Love and watch the lowly mother,
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 in whose gentle arms He lay
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 Christian children all should be,
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 kind, obedient, good as He

[V4]
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 For He is our childhood's pattern,
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 day by day like us He grew
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 He was little, weak and helpless,
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 tears and smiles like us He knew
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 And He feels for all our sadness,
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 and He shares in all our gladness

[V5]
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 And our eyes at last shall see Him,
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 through His own redeeming love
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 For that Child so dear and gentle,
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 is our Lord in heaven above
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 And He leads His children on,
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 to the place where He is gone

[V6]
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 Not in that poor lowly stable,
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 with the oxen standing by
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 We shall see Him but in heaven,
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 set at God's right hand on high
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 There His children gather round,
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 bright like stars, with glory crowned</lyrics>
<key>F</key>
<author>Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander</author>
</song>