Welcome, Lord Jesus
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Moderate
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Description
Christmas anthem with a 15th-century text. SATB and organ, with optional brass quintet (2 Trumpets in B-flat, Horn in F, Trombone, Tuba). Both scores (one with brass, one without) and parts provided. Light, rhythmic, and flowing with that certain "Christmas-y" sound.
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The Lord that lay in asses stall,
Came to die for us all,
to make us free that erst were thrall,
Qui natus fuit hodie. [Who was born today.]
Well may we glad and merry be,
Since we were thrall and now be free;
The fiend our foe he made to flee,
Qui natus fuit hodie.
And since our foe is fled from us,
We may well sing and say right thus;
Welcome be, this Lord Jesus,
Qui natus fuit hodie.