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Baby In a Manger 2007 Christmas Card Carol MP3 Recording (SSA version) :   Hi-speed    Dialup    Download MP3 Piano track (SSA version) :   Hi-speed    Dialup    Download View/print sheet music:     Children (PDF) / Children (.mus)     SSA (PDF) / SSA (.mus) This extremely simple little Christmas lullaby was written for my first grandson, Damien, when he was just two weeks old. The singers on the SSA recording are his mother (Holly Wilson) and his two grandmothers (Jackie Wilson and me). He appreciates it now--babies like music--and I'm sure he'll appreciate having the recording when he's 50 or so. In between, well... The SSA recording also includes a choral track made with EastWest Symphonic Choirs software. See if you can hear the computerized choir as you listen. I used the software to add fullness to the human trio, and the live singers to perk up the software's diction. In this arrangement, I gave the melody to the altos all the way through--a natural consequence of practicing "Still, Still, Still" as an alto and nearly dying of boredom. Lyrics: Baby in a manger 'ere the break of day Baby in a manger sleeping on the hay Hear the angels singing, joyful at thy birth "Gloria! Gloria! Peace on earth." Baby in a manger, legions gather nigh Heaven's song re-echoes 'neath the starry sky Hear the angels singing, joyful at thy birth "Gloria! Gloria! Peace on earth." Baby in a manger, heaven's host proclaims, "This is the Messiah! Jesus is His name." Hear the angels singing, joyful at thy birth "Gloria! Gloria! Peace on earth."