We heard a baby crying (Philip Le Bas)

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SATB version:

• (Posted 2015-12-27)  CPDL #37980:  A_Baby_Crying_-_Full_Score.pdf  A_Baby_Crying.mid  A_Baby_Crying.sib(Sibelius)A_Baby_Crying.mp3 

Editor: Philip Le Bas (submitted 2015-12-27).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 70 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Version for SATB choir with piano accompaniment

SSA version:

• (Posted 2015-12-27)  CPDL #37981:  A_Baby_Crying_SSA_-_Full_Score.pdf  A_Baby_Crying_SSA.mid  A_Baby_Crying_SSA.sib(Sibelius)A_Baby_Crying_SSA.mp3 

Editor: Philip Le Bas (submitted 2015-12-27).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 69 kB   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Transposed and arranged for SSA choir with piano accompaniment

General Information

Title: We Heard a Baby Crying
Composer: Philip Le Bas
Lyricist: Philip Britts

Number of voices: 3-4vv   Voicing: SATB
, with SSA arrangement.
Genre: Sacred, Carol

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

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Description: Setting of Philip Britt's "Carol of the Seekers", with music for SATB or SSA choir and piano accompaniment by Philip Le Bas

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Original text and translations

English text

1  We have not come like eastern kings,
with gifts upon the pommel lying.
Our hands are empty, and we came
because we heard a baby crying.

2  We have not come like questing knights,
with fiery swords and banners flying.
We heard a call and hurried here;
the call was like a baby crying.

3  But we have come with open hearts,
from places where the torch is dying.
We seek a manger and a cross,
because we heard a baby crying.