Angels We Have Heard on High

from Songs of Christmas by Randy Bonifield/Christ Community Church

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A bit of a funky spin on the classic carol, "Angels We Have Heard on High," this arrangement originated in a little Christmas acoustic band I played with many years ago called "Squeezebox Jimmy and the Wheelies." It morphed into more of a gospel version when I led The Salvation Army's MoKan Gospel Choir and here it takes on a bit more of a cross between Motown and Gospel. But what you really need to know is that this is just plain fun. This version is a staple during the Christmas season at Christ Community's Leawood Campus and it just wouldn't be Christmas without it.

lyrics

Verse 1
Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o'er the plains
And the mountain in reply
Echo back their joyous strains

Chorus
Gloria Gloria in excelsis Deo (2X)

Verse 2
Shepherds why this jubilee
Why your joyous strains prolong
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your heav’nly song

Verse 3
Come to Bethlehem and see
Him Whose birth the angels sing
Come adore on bended knee
Christ the Lord the newborn King

credits

from Songs of Christmas, released November 26, 2019
Angels We Have Heard on High
words and music by Edward Shippen Barnes and James Chadwick†
©Public Domain

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Randy Bonifield Overland Park, Kansas

A piano-playing, singer/songwriter and film composer from Kansas City whose recent work reflects a wide range of musical exploration, Randy Bonifield is a multifaceted artist with a singular focus: to center on the story around us - all that is good, true, noble, and admirable - to make us more aware of what it truly means to be more human, more alive, more connected to what ought to be. ... more