Source:
Public Domain
Lead Sheet (PDF)
melody and chords for guitar and voice (full page)
Key of FMusic Image (PNG)
melody and words as an image file to paste into bulletins (cropped)
Key of FText: Hans Adolph Brorson
Music: Johann Abraham Peter Schultz
Tune: Her Kommer Dine Arme Sma
LBW/WOV Hymn: #52
ReClaim/Sola Hymn: #112
Scripture: Galatians 3:26
Hymn Text
1 Your little ones, dear Lord, are we, And come your lowly bed to see;
Enlighten ev'ry soul and mind, That we the way to you may find.
2 With songs we hasten you to greet And kiss the dust before your feet.
O blessed hour, O sweetest night That gave you birth, our soul's delight.
3 Now welcome from your heav'nly home You to our vale of tears, have come;
Flesh has no off'ring for you, save The stable, manger, cross, and grave.
4 The whole world bound by Satan's might You've come to rescue from the night
And free us with your nail scarred hands From all our enemy's strong bands.
5 Jesus, alas! Why it is true So few bestow a thought on you,
Or in the love, so wondrous, great, That brought you down to our estate?
6 O draw us wholly to you .Lord, Keep us beside you in your word.
True faith and love to us impart, That we may hold you in our heart.
7 Keep us, howe'er the world may lure, In our baptismal covenant pure;
That every yearning thought may be Directed toward your charity.
8 Until at last we, too, proclaim, With all your saints, your glorious name;
In Paradise our songs renew, And praise you as the angels do.
9 We gather round you, Jesus dear, So happy in your presence here;
Grant us, our Savior, every one, To stand in heav'n before your throne.