Silent Night with Lyrics (Choral) (4K)

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Silent Night is another best-loved carol that is a favourite of many. It was written on Christmas Eve by Joseph Mohr and Franz Gruber for the service that very evening. It remains one of the most recognised songs of all time.

From wrti.org: "It was Christmas Eve, 1818, when the now-famous carol was first performed as Stille Nacht Heilige Nacht. Joseph Mohr, the young priest who wrote the lyrics, played the guitar and sang along with Franz Xaver Gruber, the choir director who had written the melody.

An organ builder and repairman working at the church took a copy of the six-verse song to his home village. There, it was picked up and spread by two families of travelling folk singers, who performed around northern Europe. In 1834, the Strasser family performed it for the King of Prussia. In 1839, the Rainer family of singers debuted the carol outside Trinity Church in New York City."

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Lyrics:

SILENT NIGHT, holy night!
Sleeps the world; hid from sight,
Mary and Joseph in stable bare
Watch o’er the Child beloved and fair,
Sleeping in heavenly rest,
Sleeping in heavenly rest.

Silent night, holy night!
Shepherds first saw the light,
Heard th’angelic Alleluia
Ring proclaiming from near and far
Heard resounding clear and long,
Far and near, the angel-song:
‘Jesus the Saviour is here,
Jesus the Saviour is here.’

Silent night, holy night!
Son of God, O how bright
Love is smiling from Thy face!
Strikes for us now the hour of grace,
Saviour, since Thou art born,
Saviour, since Thou art born.

Lyrics: Joseph Mohr
Melody: Franz Gruber
Arranged by: Paul Leddington Wright
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