While Shepherds Watched
First line: While shepherds watched their flocks by night / While shepherds watch [watched] their flocks by night / While shepherds watched their flocks by night, All / While shepherds watch’d their flocks by night / While shepherds watched their flocks
Original language: English
Words: Nahum Tate
Music: Yorkshire carol
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While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
Hymns
(1985, 2002 ed.), 211
1. While shepherds watch’d their flocks by night,All seated on the ground,The angel of the Lord came down,And glory shone around.“Fear not,” said he, for mighty dreadHad seized their troubled mind;“Glad tidings of great joy I bringTo you and all mankind.”
2. “To you, in David’s town this day,Is born of David’s lineThe Savior who is Christ the Lord,And this shall be the sign:The heav’nly Babe you there shall findTo human view displayed,All meanly wrapped in swathing bands,And in a manger laid.”
3. Thus spake the seraph, and forthwithAppeared a shining throngOf angels praising God, who thusAddressed their joyful song:“All glory be to God on highAnd on the earth be peace.Goodwill henceforth from heav’n to menBegin and never cease.”
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These charts show the use of this song in English hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If a song appears in multiple editions of the same hymnbook, it is only counted once. [undetermined] means that tune information has not yet been entered in.
Tunes that have appeared with this song in English
Appearances of this song over time in English
Tune: Yorkshire Melody (by Yorkshire carol) (Return to top) Tune 211
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
M. I. A. Songs and Sociability Songs (1928, 1937 ed.), no. 103b
Tune: Diadem (by James Ellor) (Return to top) Tune 1996
While Shepherds Watched
Sacred Choruses for Male Singers (1937, 1937 ed.), 17
Arr.: J. Spencer Cornwall
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The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration (1986, 1986 ed.), 135
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The Hymnal for Youth (Herald Edition, RLDS) (1951, 1955 ed.), 67
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While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks
Latter-Day Saints Congregational Hymns, Volume 1 (1919, 1919 ed.), 43