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Noel lyrics by Robert Donat

ON a winter’s night long time ago
(The bells ring loud and the bells ring low)
When high howled wind, and down fell snow
(Carillon, Carilla)
Saint Joseph he and Nostre Dame
Riding on an ass, full weary came
From Nazareth into Bethlehem
And the small child Jesus smile on you

And Bethlehem inn they stood before
(The bells ring less and the bells ring more)
The landlord bade them begone from his door
(Carillon, Carilla)
„Poor folk” (says he), „must lie where they may
For the Duke of Jewry comes this way
With all his train on Christmas Day.”
And the small child Jesus smile on you

Poor folk that may my carol hear
(The bells ring single and the bells ring clear)
See! God’s one child had hardest cheer!
(Carillon, Carilla)
Men grown hard on a Christmas morn;
The dumb beast by and a babe forlorn
It was very, very cold when our Lord was born
And the small child Jesus smile on you

Now these were Jews as Jews must be
(The bells ring merry and the bells ring free)
But Christian men in a band are we
Carillon, Carilla)
Empty we go, and ill be-dight
Singing Noel on a winter’s night
Give up to sup by the warm firelight
And the small child Jesus smile on you