Text: Traditional
Music: French Carol
Arrangement: Alice Parker and Robert Shaw
Published: Lawson-Gould Music Publishers, Inc.

Soprano: Julie Bailey
Alto: Jennifer Kujawski
Tenor: Roland Brenny
Bass: Douglas Rose

Bring a torch, Jeanette, Isabella.
Bring a torch, come hurry and run.
It is Jesus, good folk of the village,
Christ is born, and Mary’s calling:
Ah! Ah! Beautiful is the mother;
Ah! Ah! Beautiful is the child!

It is wrong, when the Baby is sleeping,
It is wrong to speak so loud;
Silence, now as you come near the cradle,
Lest you awaken little Jesus.
Ah! Ah! Beautiful is the mother;
Ah! Ah! Beautiful is the child!

Skies are glowing, the heavens are cloudless,
Bright the path to the manger bed.
Hasten all who would see little Jesus,
Shining bright as yonder star.
Ah! Ah! Beautiful is the mother;
Ah! Ah! Beautiful is the child!