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- Editor: Christopher R. Baker (submitted 2000-11-27). Copyright: CC BY 1.0
- Edition notes:
General Information
Title: Joy to the world
Tune: Sounding Joy
Composer: Anonymous
Lyricist: Isaac Watts
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol
Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second - Harrisburg PA (1820) - Originally set in shape notes
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Original text and translations
English text
- 1.
- Joy to the world! The Lord is come;
- Let earth receive her King;
- Let ev'ry heart prepare Him room,
- and heav'n and nature sing.
- 2.
- Joy to the world! The Saviour reigns;
- Let men their songs employ,
- While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains
- repeat the sounding joy.
- 3.
- He rules the world, with truth and grace,
- and makes the nations prove
- the glories of His righteousness
- and wonders of His love.