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 He came down to earth from heaven Who is God and Lord of all And his shelter was a stable And his cradle was a stall With the poor and mean and lowly Lived on earth our Saviour holy Not in that poor lowly stable With the oxen standing by We shall see him, but in heaven Set at God's right hand on high Where like stars his children crowned All in white shall wait around