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"Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol to the hymn tune "Gloria" from a traditional French song of unknown origin called "Les Anges dans nos campagnes", with paraphrased English lyrics by James Chadwick. The song's subject is the birth of Jesus Christ as narrated in the Gospel of Luke, specifically the scene outside Bethlehem in which shepherds encounter a multitude of angels singing and praising the newborn child.

"Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol to the hymn tune "Gloria" from a traditional French song of unknown origin called "Les Anges dans nos campagnes", with paraphrased English lyrics by James Chadwick. The song's subject is the birth of Jesus Christ as narrated in the Gospel of Luke, specifically the scene outside Bethlehem in which shepherds encounter a multitude of angels singing and praising the newborn child.

"Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol to the hymn tune "Gloria" from a traditional French song of unknown origin called "Les Anges dans nos campagnes", with paraphrased English lyrics by James Chadwick.

"Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol to the hymn tune "Gloria" from a traditional French song of unknown origin called "Les Anges dans nos campagnes", with paraphrased English lyrics by James Chadwick. The song's subject is the birth of Jesus Christ as narrated in the Gospel of Luke, specifically the scene outside Bethlehem in which shepherds encounter a multitude of angels singing and praising the newborn child.

The lyrics to the Christmas carol Angels We Have Heard on High are based on the French carol Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes.
The author of the french original is unknown.
The most common English version is a translation made by James Chadwick in 1862.
James Chadwick was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle.
The most common English version is a translation made by James Chadwick in 1862.
James Chadwick was the Roman Catholic Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle.

"Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol to the hymn tune "Gloria" from a traditional French song of unknown origin called "Les Anges dans nos campagnes", with paraphrased English lyrics by James Chadwick. The song's subject is the birth of Jesus Christ as narrated in the Gospel of Luke, specifically the scene outside Bethlehem in which shepherds encounter a multitude of angels singing and praising the newborn child.



Lyrics:
Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o'er the plains
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains

Angels we have heard on high
Singing sweetly through the night
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their brave delight

Gloria in excelsis Deo
Gloria (Gloria, Gloria) in excelsis Deo
Da, da-da, da-ra, da, da-da, da-ra, da, da-da, da-ra, da, da-da, da-ra

Oh, shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your heavenly song?

Gloria in excelsis Deo
Gloria in excelsis Deo

Come to Bethlehem and see
Him, whose birth the angels sing
Come, adore on bended knee
Christ the Lord the newborn King

Gloria (Gloria) in excelsis Deo
Gloria in excelsis Deo
Da, da-da, da-ra, da, da-da, da-ra, da, da-da, da-ra, da, da-da, da-ra
Gloria in excelsis Deo

Angels we have heard
Angels we have heard on high
Angels we have heard, oh

Angels we have heard on high
Angels we have heard on high
Angels we have heard on high
Oh, in excelsis Deo

"Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol to the hymn tune "Gloria" from a traditional French song of unknown origin called "Les Anges dans nos campagnes", with paraphrased English lyrics by James Chadwick. The song's subject is the birth of Jesus Christ as narrated in the Gospel of Luke, specifically the scene outside Bethlehem in which shepherds encounter a multitude of angels singing and praising the newborn child. "Angels We Have Heard on High" is generally sung to the hymn tune "Gloria", a traditional French carol as arranged by Edward Shippen Barnes. Its most memorable feature is its chorus, "Gloria in excelsis Deo", where the "o" of "Gloria" is fluidly sustained through 16 notes of a rising and falling melismatic melodic sequence.

"Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol to the hymn tune "Gloria" from a traditional French song of unknown origin called "Les Anges dans nos campagnes", with paraphrased English lyrics by James Chadwick. The song's subject is the birth of Jesus Christ as narrated in the Gospel of Luke, specifically the scene outside Bethlehem in which shepherds encounter a multitude of angels singing and praising the newborn child.

LYRICS:
I've been driving through the night
Pull up and see the lights
This is the place that I call home

I watch you as you dream
I think of all you mean to me
Touch your face, kiss you softly

And before I go to sleep
I pray under the stars
Search my soul and check my heart

And thank God for another day, another chance
To love the ones I love
To find my way, to laugh, to dance
And watch the sun come up
Another day I get to live
As if every breath could be the last I take
I get another day, ooh

I have a hand that I can hold
Someone who knows my soul
A safe place to lay my head at night

Still sometimes I forget
Just how much I've been blessed in life
I forget what means the most to me, yeah

But I'm waking up again
I feel my beating heart
So grateful that I've come this far

I thank God for another day, another chance
To love the ones I love
To find my way, to laugh, to dance
And watch the sun come up
Another day I get to live
As if every breath could be the last I take
I get another day

Another day to make somebody smile
To go the extra mile
To take a wrong and make it right
Yeah, I'm trying to touch somebody's life
I get another day, yeah, yeah, yeah, ooh, yeah

Thank God for another day
To love the ones I love
To find my way, to laugh, to dance
And watch the sun come up
Another day I get to live
As if every breath could be the last I take

I get another day
To find my way, to laugh, to dance
And watch the sun come up
Another day I get to live
As if every breath could be the last I take, yeah
They chase my wildest dreams so I can't wait

I get another day, oh yeah
I get another day
I get another day

LYRICS:
There before me
Wrapped in glory
Seated at the highest place

Courts of elders
Wings of angels
Day and night, ceaseless praise

Flash of lightning
Peels of thunder
Stretched across the crystal sea

All the honor
And dominion
To Him who holds eternity

With every lap around the throne I catch another glimpse
You’re Holy, Holy, so Holy
The longer I behold You I can’t help but say again
You’re Holy, Holy, so Holy

We pour our oil out
We lay our crowns down
Here before the Savior’s feet

All the honor
And dominion
To Him who holds eternity
The King of Kings

You are Holy, Holy
You are Holy, Holy
You are Holy, Holy
You are Holy, Holy

You’re the only God who was
You’re the only God who is
You’re the only God who is to come

LYRICS:
You do everything on purpose
I can feel your Spirit stirring
I've been praying You’ve been working
Working it all for good

Fan the flame and keep it burning
You're refining in the furnace
All the waiting will be worth it
Cause You're working it all for good

Miracle after miracle
Open door after open door
Here it comes
So get ready for another one
Cause another one is on the way
Miracle after miracle
Open door after open door
Here it comes
So get ready for another one
Cause another one is on the way
Another one is on the way

Rushing wind and living water
God of signs and God of wonders
If you will it what can stop it
You're working it all for good
Yea you’re working it all for good

If He told the sun
When to rise
And it did
He will again

And if He told the storm
To be still
And it did
He will again

And if He told the sea
Where to split
And it did
He will again

And if He told the walls
When to fall
And they did
He will again

And if He told the chains
When to break
And they did
He will again

And if He told the bones
Come alive
And they did
He will again

And if He told the stone
Roll away
And it did
He will again

And if He told the grave
Let him go
And it did
He will again