We heard a baby crying (Philip Le Bas)

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SATB version:

  • (Posted 2015-12-27)  CPDL #37980:  [ Icon_pdf.gif] [ Icon_snd.gif] [ Sibelius] [ Icon_mp3.gif]
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:  [ Icon_pdf.gif] [ Icon_snd.gif] [ Sibelius] [ Icon_mp3.gif]
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: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
with a version for SSA choir
Genre: SacredCarol

Language: English
Instruments: Piano

Published: 2015

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.png 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.
 

By Philip Britts (1917-1949)