Go tell it

 

 

 

 

Recently we were getting together

to chose some songs for

caroling among our elderly in the Community.

 

Of all the years, of all those times....

I didn't really stop to "Think".

 

This was a song, hardly sung at Christmas.

This was a song sung at Sunday School,

at summer camp around the fire.

 

I really never thought about it as a "Christmas Carol".

Nor, I found out from those around me, had others.

 

Go Tell It on the Mountain

 

Chorus:

Go tell it on the Mountain,

Over the hills and everywhere.

Go, tell it on the mountain

that Jesus Christ is born.

 

While Shepards kept their watching

O'er silent flocks by night.

Behold, throughout the Heavens

there shone a holy light.

 

The Sheperds feard and trembled

when lo, above the earth

rong out the angel chorus

that haild our Savoriours birth!

 

Down in in the lowly manger

the humble Christ was born

and God sent out Salvation

that blessed CHRISTMAS morn.

 

Maybe it's because the chorus is all we sang?

How sad, that this song is one we sang all year,

yet we didn't think of it as a Christmas Carol.

 

Why can't we sing things like

Silent Night or

Hark the harold angels sing

all year? 

 

Maybe our lives would be different. 

Maybe.............just maybe.