Once in Royal David's City
Words and music by Cecil Frances Alexander & Henry Gauntlett · 1848
Key of F · 84 BPM · 4/4 · Christmas · Luke 2:4-7
Verse 1
Once in royal David's city stood a lowly cattle shed,
where a mother laid her baby in a manger for his bed:
Mary was that mother mild, Jesus Christ her little child.
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