We heard a baby crying (Philip Le Bas)
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- Editor: Philip Le Bas (submitted 2015-12-27). Score information: A4, 3 pages, 69 kB Copyright: CPDL
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Title: We Heard a Baby Crying
Composer: Philip Le Bas
Lyricist: Philip Britts
Number of voices: 3-4vv Voicing: SATB
, with SSA
Genre: Sacred, Carol
Language: English
Instruments: Piano
First 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 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.