(Christmas) Music Monday

I love The Piano Guys and I am absolutely in love with their latest music video. It always brings tears to my eyes! What a beautiful rendition of Angels From The Realms Of Glory. They are joined by Peter Hollens (who you may have seen his video that came out a year or two ago of him singing the Misty Mountains song from the Hobbit a cepella. A.Maze.Ing.) and David Archuleta and the Morman Tabernacle Choir (when they sing, I kinda lose it! especially at the end *spoiler alert* with all of the angels gather at the manger. What a sight! I can't help but think of how angels proclain and sing and worship our Lord unseen.)

After hearing this song several times, and thinking that it was Angels We Have Heard on High, but maybe verses not normally sung, yet also thinking it sounded familiar, I decided to Google it!  According to Wikipedia, it is a Christmas carol written by James Montgomery, first printed in 1816. In the UK, it is sung to the tune of "Angels We Have Heard On High", but in the USA, it is done to the tune of "Regent Sqaure", a song I've never heard of. The refrain "Gloria" has been substituted by the original lyrics "come and worship Christ the new born King".  Now you know! 

Just beautiful.


Angels from the Realms of Glory ~ James Montgomery

Angels, from the realms of glory,
Wing your flight o'er all the earth;
Ye who sang creation's story,
Now proclaim Messiah's birth:

Come and worship, come and worship
Worship Christ, the newborn King.
 
Shepherds, in the fields abiding,
Watching o'er your flocks by night,
God with man is now residing,
Yonder shines the infant light:
 
Come and worship, come and worship
Worship Christ, the newborn King.
 
Sages, leave your contemplations,
Brighter visions beam afar;
Seek the great Desire of nations,
Ye have seen his natal star:
 
Come and worship, come and worship
Worship Christ, the newborn King.
 
Sinners, wrung with true repentance,
Doomed for guilt to endless pains,
Justice now revokes the sentence,
Mercy calls you—break your chains:
 
Come and worship, come and worship
Worship Christ, the newborn King.
 
Though an infant now we view him,
He shall fill his Father's throne,
Gather all the nations to him;
Every knee shall then bow down:
 
Come and worship, come and worship
Worship Christ, the newborn King.
 
All creation, join in praising
God the Father, Spirit, Son,
Evermore your voices raising,
To th'eternal Three in One:
 
Come and worship, come and worship
Worship Christ, the newborn King


I am not Morman, but I also believe what Steven Sharp Nelson says at the end of the video.  #sharethegift


*****Upon further investigation, I found a version of this song that I know! I remember singing this in church growing up! I'm all excited now! Check out this video next: Angels from the Realm of Glory  sung by downhere, a good Canadian group