MP3 - I'm going to Bethlehem Tonight
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My Grandmother was given the gift of poetry. She wrote about many subjects and expressed her feelings and testimony in her poems. This is one of her poems that I set to music for Primary to sing at Christmas.
I'm going to Bethlehem tonight, it isn't very far.
I passed some shepherds in a field who said they saw a star.
Far brighter than the noonday sun and while they watched spellbound,
an angel came from heav'n above, and glory shone around.
The angel told them of a child born in a lowly shed.
With cattle lowing all about, and straw to lay his head.
They said that angels sang with joy for this child they adored
because he came to save the world, he is our Christ, the Lord.
I'm on my way to Bethlehem, my heart is glad and light.
With eagerness my footsteps go, I'm hast'ning through the night.
I'll soon be at the manger there, the wondrous sight to see.
I want someone to share this joy, so won't you come with me?
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This is unusual by LDS standards, but I found the words of a poem and knew I had to write a hymn. Some of the words of the poem have been mo...
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This tune has been in my brain and on the computer for several years. I knew it was a Primary Song, but didn't know it was going to be a...
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I was looking through some lyrics for something completely different when this almost jumped off the page at me and almost instantaneously t...
I love this song! Can't wait to teach it to my primary kids!
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