文本歌词

Once in royal davids city
Stood a lowly cattle shed
Where a mother laid her baby
In a manger for his bed
Mary was that mother mild
Jesus christ her little child
And through all
His wondrous childhood
He would honor and obey
Love and watch the lowly mother
In whose gentle arms he lay
Christian children all should be
Mild obedient good as he
Not in that poor lowly stable
With the oxen standing by
We shall see him but in heaven
Set at god's right hand on high
When like stars
His children crowned
All in white shall be around
Once in Royal David's City - Alfred Deller