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Hymnal Number
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Keys included:
D
About this Hymn
With its triumphant cadence and rousing spirit, this carol was written by the man commonly called the Liberator of the English Hymn, Isaac Watts. This hymn, intended as a setting of Psalm 98, speaking of the second coming of Jesus, was published in 1719. Since then it has become America's best-loved carol, as it encapsulates the joy of the season like nothing else—and was not even originally considered a Christmas song!
Lyrics
Verse 1
Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King; let ev'ry heart prepare him room, and heav'n and nature sing, and heav'n and nature sing, and heav'n, and heav'n and nature sing.
Verse 2
Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns! Let men their songs employ; while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains repeat the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy, repeat, repeat the sounding joy.
Verse 3
No more let sins and sorrows grow, nor thorns infest the ground; he comes to make his blessings flow far as the curse is found, far as the curse is found, far as, far as the curse is found.
Verse 4
He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove the glories of his righteousness and wonders of his love, and wonders of his love, and wonders, wonders of his love.
Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King; let ev'ry heart prepare him room, and heav'n and nature sing, and heav'n and nature sing, and heav'n, and heav'n and nature sing.
Verse 2
Joy to the earth, the Savior reigns! Let men their songs employ; while fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains repeat the sounding joy, repeat the sounding joy, repeat, repeat the sounding joy.
Verse 3
No more let sins and sorrows grow, nor thorns infest the ground; he comes to make his blessings flow far as the curse is found, far as the curse is found, far as, far as the curse is found.
Verse 4
He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove the glories of his righteousness and wonders of his love, and wonders of his love, and wonders, wonders of his love.
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Attribution & Copyright
Words: Isaac Watts, 1719
Music: Psalmodia Britannica, vol. 4, ca. 1831, alt. Lowell Mason, 1848
Music: Psalmodia Britannica, vol. 4, ca. 1831, alt. Lowell Mason, 1848