"Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol with English lyrics by James Chadwick, to the hymn tune "Gloria" from a traditional French song of unknown origin called Les Anges dans nos campagnes. This song is featured in various Disney music media, including Disney's Christmas Lullaby Album.
Chime and Chorus perform this song on Disneyland Records' 1978 Christmas album, "Merry Christmas Songs: 29 All-Time Favorites" as "Westminster Carol".
Lyrics[]
Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o'er the plains
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains
|: Gloria in excelsis Deo! :|
Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be?
Which inspire your heavenly songs?
|: Gloria in excelsis Deo! :|
Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing;
Come, adore on bended knee,
Christ the Lord, the newborn King.
|: Gloria in excelsis Deo! :|
See Him in a manger laid
Whom the choirs of angels praise;
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
While our heart in love we raise.
|: Gloria in excelsis Deo! :|