While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (Country Beat)
Channel: ParingBolanon
Date: 15/10/2014

WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED THEIR FLOCKS

Text: Luke 2: 8-14 Nahum Tate, 1652-1715

Music: FAITH IN DOUBT Fr. J. Roel Lungay, b. 1960 (© 1994)

Vocals by Fr. J. Roel Lungay

Guitars/Steel Guitar by Steve Thomas

Piano/Keyboard by Catherine Styron-Marx

1
While shepherds watched their flocks by night,
All seated on the ground,
The angel of the Lord came down,
And glory shone around.

2
“Fear not,” said he, for mighty dread 
Had seized their troubled mind;
“Glad tidings of great joy I bring
To you and humankind.”

Refrain:
To you, in David’s town, this day
Is born of David’s line
The Savior, who is Christ the Lord;
And this shall be the sign.

3
“The heav’nly Babe you there shall find
To human view displayed.
All meanly wrapped in swathing bands,
And in a manger laid.”

4
Thus spoke the seraph; and forthwith
Appeared a shining throng
Of angels praising God, who thus
Addressed their joyful song:

(Repeat Refrain)

Coda:
“All glory be to God on high
And on the earth be peace;
Good will henceforth from heav’n to all
Begin and never cease.”

Text: New Version of the Psalms, 1696. Tr. Nahum Tate, 1652-1715 and
Nicholas Brady, 1659-c. 1726. Public Domain
Music: FAITH IN DOUBT; Fr. J. Roel Lungay, © 1994

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