Lyrics O Come All Ye Faithful - Art Garfunkel

O Come All Ye Faithful

O Come All Ye Faithful
Joyful and triumphant,
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.
Come and behold Him,
Born the King of Angels;
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.
O Sing, choirs of angels,
Sing in exultation,
Sing all that hear in heaven God’s holy word.
Give to our Father glory in the Highest;
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.
All Hail!
Lord, we greet Thee,
Born this happy morning,
O Jesus!
for evermore be Thy name adored.
Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing;
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
O come, let us adore Him,
Christ the Lord.
Adeste fideles, laetit triumphants,
venite, venite in Bethlehem!
Natum videte regem angelorum:
venite adoremus, venite adoremus,
venite adoremus Dominum!
The text to the Carol O Come All Ye Faithful was originally written in Latin
(Adeste Fideles) and was intended to be a hymn, it is attributed to John Wade,
an Englishman.
The music to O Come All Ye Faithful was composed by fellow
Englishman John Reading in the early 1700s.
The tune was first published in a
collection known as «Cantus Diversi» in 1751. In 1841 Rev. Frederick Oakley is
reputed to have worked on the familiar translation of O Come All Ye Faithful
which replaced the older Latin lyrics «Adeste Fideles».