O thou joyful, O thou wonderful grace revealing Christmastide
Author: Johannes Daniel Falk; Johann C. Heinrich Holzschuher
Composer: Sicilian folk tune; Tattersall’s Psalmody, 1794
Languages (7)
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Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in German, in 1954 or earlier.
Public domain
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: Lieder der Heiligen (RLDS) (1953), 85; G.U.F. Sånger (1953), p. 84.
Representative lyrics
German (Original Language)
1. O du fröhliche, o du selige, gnadenbringende Weihnachtszeit! Welt ging verloren, Christ ward geboren: Freue, freue dich, o Christenheit!
2. O du fröhliche, o du selige, gnadenbringende Weihnachtszeit! Christ ist erschienen, uns zu versühnen: Freue, freue dich, o Christenheit!
3. O du fröhliche, o du selige, gnadenbringende Weihnachtszeit! Himmlische Heere jauchzen dir Ehre: Freue, freue dich, o Christenheit!
4. O du fröhliche, o du selige, gnadenbringende Weihnachtszeit! König der Ehren, dich wolln wir hören! Freue, freue dich, o Christenheit!