[Dixielandjazz] OT: The Holy City

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Hi Stan,
I think it's the same "The Holy City" you're asking about that  you can 
find on YouTube sung by artists such as Charlotte Church and  Mahalia Jackson.  
I've pasted the words below.  I heard it sung more  than once as a church 
anthem in my childhood, several times at church  funerals.  It's not usually 
considered a Christmas song in my mind, as the  lyrics are more about 
Christian resurrection than the birth of Jesus -- or  maybe even about some 
Christian theology of end time???
Ginny
PS:  I liked Mahalia Jackson's rendition more than Chrarlotte  Church's.
 
 
Last night I lay a-sleeping
There came a dream so  fair,
I stood in old Jerusalem
Beside the temple there.
I heard the  children singing,
And ever as they sang,
Me thought the voice of  angels
>From heaven in answer rang.
Me thought the voice of angels
>From  heaven in answer rang.

Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
Lift up your gates and  sing,
Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna to your King!

And then me  thought my dream was changed,
The streets no longer rang,
Hushed were the  glad Hosannas
The little children sang.
The sun grew dark with  mystery,
The morn was cold and chill,
As the shadow of a cross  arose
Upon a lonely hill.
As the shadow of a cross arose
Upon a lonely  hill.

Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
Hark! How the angels sing,
Hosanna in  the highest!
Hosanna to your King!

And once again the scene was  changed;
New earth there seemed to be;
I saw the Holy City
Beside the  tideless sea;
The light of God was on its streets,
The gates were open  wide,
And all who would might enter,
And no one was denied.
No need of  moon or stars by night,
Or sun to shine by day;
It was the new  Jerusalem
That would not pass away.
It was the new Jerusalem
That would  not pass away.

Jerusalem! Jerusalem!
Sing for the night is  o'er!
Hosanna in the highest!
Hosanna for evermore!
Hosanna in the  highest!
Hosanna for evermore!
 
 
 
In a message dated 10/3/2010 11:53:11 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
sbrager at verizon.net writes:

I ran  across a song "The Holy City" written by Stephen Adams (Michael
Maybrick).  Can anyone tell me it this is or was considered a Christmas  
song?



Thanks;



Stan