Once in royal David’s city
stood a lowly cattle shed,
where a mother laid her baby
In a manger for his bed;
Mary was that mother mild,
Jesus Christ her little child.
He came down to earth from heaven,
who is God and Lord of all,
and his shelter was a stable,
and his cradle was a stall:
With the needy, poor and lowly,
Lived on earth our Saviour holy.