What Child is This?/Child of the Poor

This Christmas countermelody is played to the tune of "Greensleeves".
==Lyrics==
[Kimberly AJ]
:Helpless and hungry, lowly, afraid
:Wrapped in the chill of midwinter;
:Comes now among us, born into poverty’s embrace,
:new life for the world
:Who is this who lives with the lowly,
:Sharing their sorrows, knowing their hunger?
:This is Christ, revealed to the world
:In the eyes of a child, a child of the poor
[Méav Ní Mhaolchatha]
:What Child is this who, laid to rest
:On Mary’s lap is sleeping?
:Whom angels greet with anthems sweet,
:While shepherds watch are keeping?
:This, this is Christ the King,
:Whom shepherds guard and angels sing;
:Haste, haste, to bring Him laud,
:The Babe, the Son of Mary.
[Dual countermelody in duet]
:Why lies He in such mean estate, (Who is the stranger here in our midst,)
:Where ox and ass are feeding? (Looking for shelter among us?)
:Good Christians, fear, for sinners here (Who is the outcast? Who do we see amid the poor,)
:The silent Word is pleading. (the children of God?)
:Nails, spear shall pierce Him through, (Who is this who lives with the lowly,)
:The cross be borne for me, for you. (Sharing their sorrows, knowing their hunger?)
:Hail, hail the Word made flesh, (This is Christ, revealed to the world)
:The Babe, the Son of Mary. (In the eyes of a child, a child of the poor)
:Raise, raise a song on high, (Who is this who lives with the lowly,)
:The virgin sings her lullaby. (Sharing their sorrows, knowing their hunger?)
:Joy, joy for Christ is born, (This is Christ, revealed to the world)
:The Babe, the Son of Mary. (In the eyes of a child, a child of the poor)
[Kimberly] In the eyes of a child...
[Méav Ní Mhaolchatha] The Babe...
[Duet]
:the Son... of Mary. (a child... of the poor)
Category:Christmas
Category:Songs
Category:Countermelodies
Category:Song arrangement by Kimberly Jordan