Joy to the World

Words and music by Isaac Watts & Lowell Mason · 1719

Key of D · 100 BPM · 2/4 · Christmas,Praise · Psalm 98:4

Verse 1

Joy to the world! the Lord is come:
let earth receive her King;
let every heart prepare him room,
and heaven and nature sing,
and heaven and nature sing,
and heaven, and heaven and nature sing.

Verse 2

Joy to the earth, the Savior
reigns! Let men their songs
employ; While fields and floods, rocks,
hills and plains Repeat the
sounding joy, Repeat the sounding
joy, Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy.

Verse 3

No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest
the ground; He comes to
make His blessings flow Far as
the curse is found, Far
as the curse is found,
Far as, far as, the curse is found.

Verse 4

He rules the world with truth
and grace, And makes the
nations prove The glories of His
righteousness, And wonders of His
love, And wonders of His
love, And wonders, wonders, of His love.

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