Lift Every Voice and Sing II 21
Go, Tell It on the Mountain
- Tune
- [while shepherds kept their watching]
- Author(s)
- John W. Work, Jr., 1871-1925
- Composer(s)
- William Farley Smith (b. 1941)
- Tune Source(s)
- Negro Spiritual
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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 shown a holy light. [Refrain]
2 The shepherds feared and trembled, when lo! above the earth, Rang out the angel chorus that hailed the 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]