Intro:
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Once in royal David's city, stood a lowly cattle  shed,
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where a mother laid her baby in a manger for His  bed.
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Mary was that mo - ther mild, Jesus Christ her little child.


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He came down to earth from heaven, Who is God and Lord of all,
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And His shelter was a stable, and His cradle was a stall;
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With the poor and meek and lowly, lived on earth our savior holy.


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And through all His wondrous childhood, he would honor and obey,
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Love and watch the lowly mother, in whose gentle arms He lay.
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Christian children all should be, mild, obedient, good as He.


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And our eyes at last shall see Him , through his own redeeming love.
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For that child so dear and gentle, is our Lord in heaven above;
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And He leads His children on, to the place where he is gone.


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;

When like stars His children crowned, all in while shall wait around.