The Latest Today (Steve Draper)
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- Editor: Steve Draper (submitted 2016-12-23). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 70 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: MusicXML source file(s) in compressed .mxl format.
General Information
Title: The Latest Today
Composer: Steve Draper
Lyricist: Steve Draper
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Unison
Genre: Sacred, Carol
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First published: 2016
Description: A unison carol with modern religious words, set in a popular style. It should be very easy for any school or church choir to sing in unison.
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Original text and translations
English text
Rolling back the years a few thousand
You can see the lights in the inn.
Hospitality not a strong point
Joseph's patience now wearing thin.
Taking Mary into the stable
Clears a space that’s animal free.
Not a royal start for a Great King,
But the rest is now history
Angels in the heavens sang a song of joy.
Telling us to worship Mary's new born baby boy.
Then the shepherds came to the stable
Doing what the angels had said.
And the wise men led by the starlight
Gave their gifts to lay round his bed.
Angels in the heavens sang a song of joy.
Telling us to worship Mary's new born baby boy.
Won’t you come to praise our redeemer
Lying in a manger of hay.
First to pay respects were the shepherds
But roling on the years a few thousand
You can be the latest today.