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Find the lyrics to the Christmas carol What Child Is This? written by William Chatterton Dix in 1865. Learn about the melody, the variants and the meaning of this classic song.
What Child is this who, laid to rest, On Mary’s lap is sleeping? Whom angels greet with anthems sweet, While shepherds watch are keeping? This, this is Christ the King, Whom shepherds guard and angels sing; Haste, haste to bring Him laud, The Babe, the Son of Mary. Why lies He in such mean estate, Where ox and ass are feeding?
Find the lyrics of the classic Christmas carol What Child Is This, also known as Greensleeves, on SongLyrics. The song praises the birth of Jesus Christ and asks the question "what child is this".
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‘What child is this?’ was written for the tune of ‘Greensleeves’ in about 1865 and appeared with Stainer’s setting in Christmas Carols New and Old in 1871. See ‘The old yeare now away is fled’ ( NOBC no. 135) for a seventeenth-century variant of the ‘Greensleeves’ tune.
Find the lyrics of the classic Christmas carol What Child Is This?, also known as Greensleeves, by William Chatterton Dix. The song praises the birth of Jesus Christ as the King of Kings and the Son of Mary.
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"What Child Is This?" is a Christmas carol with lyrics written by William Chatterton Dix in 1865 and set to the tune of "Greensleeves", a traditional English folk song, in 1871. Although written in Great Britain, the carol today is more popular in the United States than its country of origin.
