Good King Joy

Joy to the world

The Lord has come

Let earth

Receive her king

Now it was long ago

When it all began

Back in Bethlehem

In the promised land

When a single star

Appeared in the sky

And three kings saw

And they each asked why

And they checked the books

Full of prophecy

And the one king said

Why it's plain to me

You see it means

That a king is born

Who will save mankind

On this blessed morn

So they packed some gold

Myrrh and frankincense

On some old camel

With some fancy tents

Closed down the house

Set the servants free

And three kings rode

Into history

It was long ago

In a foreign land

When the Lord looked down

Said to make a stand

So He sent His son

And said, 'through him you'll know me!'

Then the angels came

And when they start to sing

All at once the past

It doesn't mean a thing

And the star comes out

And the wise men say, Hey show me!

And they followed it

Over hills and sand

Til' they found the child

Like it all was planned

And as they knelt before

The newborn king

The angel's were singing

In their angel style

How all of our hopes

Had come down to this child

Then he reached for the song

And he held it in his hand

(It was something that he did

Because angels can)

And he wondered to himself

"Is this the answer that I sought"

But something was still missing

Or at least so he still thought

And so he journeyed on

Through the midnight winter air

When all at once our angel

Felt the touch of a man's prayer

And looking once more to the earth

To determine whence it came

He felt a million souls below

But one was not the same

For there he saw a man alone

Though he was walking in a crowd

And though this man had rarely prayed

Tonight his head was bowed

For even in a crowd, you see

A heart can feel alone

When the night is Christmas Eve

A child is not at home

So from a father to the Lord

A prayer did swiftly race

But the angel saw it first

And he listened to its case