Adoring the Infant King: Song #17 "Do You Hear What I Hear?"

Adoring the Infant King
The next three songs refer to others seeing the signs and coming to adore Jesus at his birth. Though they're most likely fictional, we have many songs like these in our traditional Christmas music. I think these types of songs help people personalize themselves there at the birth, which in turn helps them internalize the event more. 

Song #17 "Do You Hear What I Hear?"
I had no intention of recording or posting this song until two days ago. Though I did sing it at my first nativity festival, there have got to be thousands of pop singers out there that could belt out incredible versions of this piece, and I didn't think my version could hold a candle to them. But Meledie still had a copy of it in her files, and we sang through it on Friday just to see how it sounded. As it turned out, we both remembered it pretty well and more importantly, we really enjoyed performing it again. We didn't have a second copy, but I memorized it as quickly as I could and made a recording just before I had to leave to go pick up my kids from camp. Since I've posted a lot of lesser known Christmas songs lately, I figured you all could use something familiar. Below are the lyrics if you want to sing along. If you do you'll notice I got a couple words wrong, but for memorizing in less than 10 minutes, it's not half bad.




Said the night wind to the little lamb
Do you see what I see?
Way up in the sky, little lamb
Do you see what I see?
A star, a star, dancing in the night
With a tail as big as a kite
With a tail as big as a kite

Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy
Do you hear what I hear?
Ringing through the sky, shepherd boy
Do you hear what I hear?
A song, a song high above the trees
With a voice as big as the sea
With a voice as big as the sea

Said the shepherd boy to the mighty king
Do you know what I know?
In your palace warm, mighty king
Do you know what I know?
A Child, a Child shivers in the cold
Let us bring him silver and gold
Let us bring him silver and gold

Said the king to the people everywhere
Listen to what I say!
Pray for peace, people, everywhere
Listen to what I say!
The Child, the Child sleeping in the night
He will bring us goodness and light
He will bring us goodness and light

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