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NATIVITY

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\header { tagline = ##f title = \markup { "Joy to the World! the Lord Is Come" "          " "31" } subsubtitle = "(ANTIOCH. C.M.)" composer = \markup { "arranged from Handel's Messiah, 1742" "by Lowell Mason, 1830" } poet = "Isaac Watts, 1719" }
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  <a fis>4. <g e>8 |
  <fis d>4 <e cis> |
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  << { d2 } \\ { d } >> \bar "|."
  <d g>2 | <d fis> \bar ".." } }
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  << { a'4. g8 } \\ { a,4 a } >> |
  <d fis>4. <fis d'>8 |
  <g d'>4. q8 |
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     { a4. a,8 | a a a a | d4. } >> <d d'>8 |
  q4. <g, b'>8 |
  <a a'>4 << { a'8[ g] } \\ { a,4 } >> | <d fis>2 |
  << { b'2 s } \\ { <g g,> <d a'> } >> } } >> >>
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  1. Joy to the world! the lord is come;
    Let earth re-ceive her King;
    Let ev-ery heart pre-pare him room,
    And heaven and na-ture sing,
    And heaven and na-ture sing,
    And heaven and na-ture sing.
  2. Joy to the world! the Sav-iour reigns;
    Let men their songs em-ploy
    While fields and floods,
    rocks, hills and plains
    Re-peat the sound-ing joy,
    Re-peat the sound-ing joy,
    Re-peat, re-peat the sound-ing joy.
  3. He rules the world with truth and grace,
    And makes the nations prove
    The glo-ries of his right-eous-ness,
    And won-ders of his love,
    And won-ders of his love
    And won-ders, and won-ders of his love.
    A-men.

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