Once David's Royal City

once in royal david city

stood a lowly cattle shed

there a mother laid her baby

in a manger for His bed

mary was that mother mild

Jesus Christ her little child

He came down to earth from heaven

who is God and Lord of all

and His shelter was a stable

and His cradle was a stall

with the poor, oppressed and wholly

lived on earth our savior holy

and our eyes

at last shall see Him

through His own redeeming love

for that child, so dear and gentle

is our Lord in heaven above

and He leads His children along

to the place that He is gone