Who Is the Child?
Author: Mabel Jones Gabbott
Composer: Michael F. Moody; Stephen Hopkins
Languages (16)
This song text has been indexed at SingPraises.net in the following languages:
- Danish: Hvem er det barn?
- Dutch: Wie is het kind?
- English: Who Is the Child?
- Finnish: [Unknown title]
- French: Qui est l’enfant?
- German: Wer ist das Kind?
- Italian: Chi mai sarà quel Bambino?
- Japanese: そのこはだれ
- Korean: 강보의 아기는 누굴까?
- Mandarin (Traditional): 這小孩是誰？
- Norwegian: [Unknown title]
- Portuguese: Quem É o Menino?
- Samoan: [Unknown title]
- Spanish: ¿Quién es el niño?
- Swedish: [Unknown title]
- Tongan: [Unknown title]
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Most common tunes for “Who Is the Child?”
This chart shows the tunes that are paired with this text most frequently, in hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If the text appears with the same tune in multiple editions or translations of the same hymnbook, it is only counted once.
Appearances of “Who Is the Child?” over time
This timeline shows which tunes have been used with this text over time, in hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1976 or earlier.
In copyright (IRI)
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: Music from the Friend (1971–2020) (1971–2020), Dec 1976.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. Who is the child in the swaddling clothes, Lying asleep in the manger? Mary and Joseph watch nearby. Who is this little stranger?
2. Hush now, the child is the Son of God. Jesus is quietly sleeping. Shepherds have come to worship him; Angels their watch are keeping.
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