Merry, Merry Children, Sweetly Sing
Author: Charles W. Stayner
Composer: Ebenezer Beesley
Languages (18)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Danish: Glad og muntert lyder barnets sang
- Dutch: Blijde, blijde kind’ren zing je lied
- English: Merry, Merry Children, Sweetly Sing
- Finnish: Onnelliset lapset laulellen
- French: Joyeux enfants, chantez tous en choeur
- German: Fröhlich, Kinder, singt erfreut
- Icelandic: Glöð við saman syngjum
- Italian: Tutti i bimbi cantano in coro
- Japanese: [Unknown title]
- Korean: [Unknown title]
- Mandarin (Traditional): [Unknown title]
- Norwegian: Søte, glade småbarn
- Portuguese: Crianças, Cantemos
- Samoan: Tamaiti e Pepese Nei
- Spanish: Niños, Hoy Cantemos
- Swedish: Alla glada barn, stäm upp en sång
- Tahitian: Pupu Tamarii Oaoa
- Tongan: Hiva Fiefia ʻa Siʻi Fanau
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Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1883 or earlier.
Public domain
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: The Juvenile Instructor (1866–1929), Nov 1883.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. Merry, merry children, sweetly sing Of the happy days that the seasons bring; Each in its robes doth gaily appear, The hearts of the children to comfort and cheer.
Merry, merry children, sweetly sing Of the happy days that the seasons bring; Merry, merry children, sweetly sing Of the happy days that the seasons bring.
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