Shepherds, why this jubilee?
     Why these songs of happy cheer?
         What great brightness did you see?
  What glad tiding did you hear?
     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 new-born King.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.
        Gloria in excelsis Deo.

  See him in a manger laid
 Whom the angels praise above;
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
While we raise our hearts in love.
 Gloria in excelsis Deo.
Gloria in excelsis Deo.