99 - Christmas
Refrain: Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere;
go tell it on the mountain, that Jesus Christ is born!
1. While shepherds kept their watching o’er silent flocks by night,
behold, throughout the heavens there shone a holy light. Refrain
2. The shepherds feared and trembled when lo! above the earth
rang out the angel chorus that hailed our Savior’s birth. Refrain
3. Down in a lowly manger the humble Christ was born,
and God sent us salvation that blessed Christmas morn. Refrain
Words: Afro-American spiritual, 19th cent.; adapt. John W. Work (b. 1901) Music: Go Tell It on the Mountain, Afro-American spiritual, 19th cent.; arr. Horace Clarence Boyer (b. 1935)