Hymn of the Month

Every month we post one of my Worship Songs onto the 'Hymn of the Month' page in the Sheer Joy Music website, and this month we have just posted one of my Advent songs, The Infant Christ. If you follow this link you can download a copy of the sheet music for free and also listen to the tune. I'm posting the lyrics below. Hope you enjoy it and especially that you will take it to your church and enjoy singing it this Advent Season!

You have full permission to copy the song for use in your church, although it cannot be included in any form of publication (electronic or otherwise) where a charge is made for the publication as a whole.

The Infant Christ
Tune: Dennis

Worship the infant Christ
Asleep in manger bare;
The Son of God, come down to earth,
His glory shining there.

Then Mary, looking down,
At Jesus where He lay,
Saw all the angel promised her
Asleep on bed of hay.

She shed a tear of joy,
For Jesus lying there;
She placed a kiss upon His head,
The world her joy to share.

God’s love complete in Him,
Is there for us to find,
He is our Saviour and our Lord,
Our souls He’ll care and mind.

So may we ever praise,
With heart and voice and soul,
The blessed Saviour of the world,
Who came to make us whole.

Now, as we gaze on Him,
In that manger crude and bare,
Our voices we will lift in praise
Of the Christ-child lying there!
© Colin Gordon-Farleigh, 2006