All Around the Child
Hymn composed by
Jim ScottContextual information
A song for the Christmas/Solstice holiday season that might be used anytime of celebrating a birth. This piano accompaniment is an SATB four-part harmonization. A more diverse SATB choral arrangement is available from Jim Scott Music.
A song for the Christmas/Solstice holiday season that might be used anytime of celebrating a birth. This piano accompaniment is an SATB four-part harmonization. A more diverse SATB choral arrangement is available from Jim Scott Music.
Tune Name
[Ancient story lived again]
Tune Name
Text Meter
Irregular
10.9.10.9
Song Composer
Jim ScottHymn Arranger
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Lyrics
Ancient story lived again, dark of longest night.
Birth of innocence and hope kindles our delight.
All celebrate the labor’s end.
Forth in laughter, tear and smile.
Light of love and joy extend all around the child
New life fragile yet complete, life from love once more.
Universal miracle, faith in life restore.
The harmony of all the world
lulls the newborn child to rest.
Welcome dreamer, safely sleep on your mother’s breast.
May our wonder never cease, Nature’s greatest art.
Birth and breath of life again warms the coldest heart.
Now rich and simple gifts bestowed,
Sacred promises well made.
Reverence and hope renewed all around the babe.
Vision for humanity, all around the child.
Loving as one family all around the child.
Life passages well understood,
known and felt around the earth;
Rich or poor we each are blessed by the miracle of birth.
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