Lyrics Index

This index is frequently updated. See also Composers and Collections.

NB: Many of these pieces are included on The Jubilate Group website.  Registering on The Jubilate Group, which is free, will enable you not only to see the whole text, but also (in most cases) to listen to the set tune and print all lyrics and music.

A baby cries

A Blessing

A Carol for Christmas

A Friend of Jesus

Alleluia! Love eternal

All things were made by God the King

As the deer longs for streams of water

As through the calm

At One with God

Be merciful to me, O God

Bethlehem! Musical for Schools  (nine songs)

Bethlehem sleeps

Bethlehem, we come to bring

Blessed are they who listen not to evil counsel

Blessed . . . is he that cometh in the name of the Lord - [commission: Edington Festival]

Bright mystical starlight

Bring songs of joy to God the Lord

By his redeeming love, at one with God!

Candle burning in the night

Christ Arose!

Christ the dawn of our salvation

Cross of Jesus, Cross of sorrow

Dark is the night, and friends lie sleeping still

Dark the night, but joy comes in the morning

Daylight is fading

Day was theirs

Day, when creation (Sumsion: Four Hymns)

Dear Lord our God, our refuge

Donkey and ox around his bed

Down to the lords of earth – [commission: Edington Festival]

Everlasting love

Faithful servant, noble martyr, (after tu es Petrus)

Far greater than one thought or could suppose

Five songs of holy ground

From Syria’s distant sunlit hills

Give thanks to God, the Lord of all creation’s wonders

God to Adam came in Eden

God has come in

God is a boy in Bethlehem

God the Father

Grace

His theme was love

Holy, holy, holy,

Holy, joyful dawn of Christmas

Holy Spirit, may we know

How lovely is that dwelling-place

How widely now does Christ stretch out his arms

I dreamed that I saw three donkeys

I found him cradled in a lamp-lit barn

If the Lord had not been near

I’ll praise the Lord for ever and ever

I met the Lord

In cold and nakedness

In homage we sing

In the heart where love is abiding

In the shelter of a stable

In the sound of a mighty wind

In this place – [commission: St Michael's, WatfordCentenary service]

I saw my love by lantern light

It is your faith

Jesus, a stranger, to me a mystic stranger

Jesus, child of gentle Mary

Jesus, Name above all names

Jesus, you are welcome

Joseph no treason did meet

Just like a shepherd

Keeping the good things

Light beyond shadow, joy beyond tears (‘Light of the World’)

Long ago on Patmos Island

Look down from Heaven, Holy Father - [commission: London Oratory]

Lord, at the dawn of every day

Lord, bless and keep this little child

Lord Jesus of the little child

Lord Jesus, when you came to earth

Lord, who may dwell within your house

Love was His theme

Mary came with meekness

Mary, ride on to David’s town

May we, O Holy Spirit, bear your fruit –  (SEE THIS) [commission: Emmanuel Church, Northwood]

Miracle Man Musical for Schools

Music sounds the joy of human hearts

New light has dawned, the Son of God is here

Night-time is passing,

No frightened shepherds now

No Small Wonder (Listen now)

No town so small

Now bright the stars of Bethlehem

No words, O Lord, can tell the wonder of your love – [commission: Edington Festival]

O come all you children to Bethlehem town

O God, hear me calling and answer, I pray!

O God of all creation

O God, you are my God, I seek you

O hear the song I sing today

Oh Lord, be with me (Sumsion: Four Hymns)

O Lord God, you will search me out

O Lord, my God, you know all my ways

O Lord, the mansions where you dwell

Oh what a day for singing

Once in a garden long ago

Once, down in Bethlehem

One star

Peace came at evening (Sumsion)

Peter, strong and swift to run

Praise God for harvest time

Praise in the morning – [commission: Merchant Taylors' School]

Praise to thee, Lord Jesus

Reach out and touch the Lord

Saint Stephen was faithful

Samuel! Cantata

Sea, breaking on rising shores

See the grace of God abounding

Shepherd-boy, tell me, why are you singing

Show me your hands, your hands that woke the dead

Six songs of Adbvent

Small Wonder the Star (Listen now)

Softly, a shepherd is singing

So gentle, the donkey

Songs of advent (Suite)

Songs of Holy Ground (Suite)

Steep in a summer garden

Still. still, still, the baby lies asleep

Strange, how Jesus came

Strong, my faint heart would be

Such a night in Bethlehem

Sweet Mary, sing to Christ the King

Sweet sacrament divine

The bells of waiting Advent ring

The daylight is fading

The eyes that saw the needs

The Lord is like a shepherd to my soul

The one who owns his inmost need

There’s a great light

There’s a man riding in on a donkey

The star of heaven foretells

There’s a man riding in on a donkey

There was a boy

The star of Heaven

The stars of Bethlehem

The star of heaven foretells

The Waterman (St David)

The wilderness of temptiong, Lord

They killed him as a common thief

This is our harvest, season of fruitfulness – [commission: Kendal Parish Church]

This is Saint Mark who followed Christ

Thy body men have taken

To Bethlehem the strangers came

To the Lord I looked in patience

Travellers all to Bethlehem

Travellers’ Tales (Suite)

Trinity (Processional) St Michael’s, Basingstoke

True, merciful and brave the saint whose name

Water brings new life – [commission: Malvern Priory

Waterfall and ocean, canyon, cliff and shore

We come to this place - [commission: St Mary Magdalene, Enfield]

We come to this your table, Lord

We look up, now, and gaze upon the hills

We sing our songs of praise

We were not there in Bethlehem

What riches on this earth can buy one human breath?

When did he die?

When Matthew heard the Master call his name

When rays of that first morning light (Sumsion: Four Hymns)

Why in the dawning of another day

Wings of a pale dove

Wise men three

With this, our godly scholar – [commission: Edington Festivaltribute to George Herbert]

Why in the dawning of another day

Your feet, O Lord, have walked this earth

Your love flows down