Angels We Have Heard on High ============================ Traditional French Carol [Verse 1] Angels we have heard on high sweetly singing o'er the plains, and the mountains in reply echoing their joyous strains. [Refrain] Gloria, in excelsis Deo! Gloria, in excelsis Deo! [Verse 2] Shepherds, why this jubilee? Why your joyous strains prolong? What the gladsome tidings be which inspire your heav'nly song? [Refrain] [Verse 3] Come to Bethlehem and see Christ whose birth the angels sing; come, adore on bended knee, Christ the Lord, the newborn King. [Refrain] [Verse 4] See him in a manger laid, whom the choirs of angels praise; Mary, Joseph, lend your aid, while our hearts in love we raise. [Refrain]