angels we have heard on high singing sweetly over the plains and the mountains in reply echoing back their joyous strains gloria in excelsis deo gloria in excelsis deo shepards why this jubilee why your joyous strains prolong say what may the tidings be which inspire your heavenly gloria in excelsis deo gloria in excelsis deo come to bethlehem and see him whose birth the angels sing come adore on bended knee christ the lord the new born king gloria in excelsis deo gloria in excelsis deo