Moya Brennan - The Wexford Carol lyrics

Good people all this Christmas time Consider well and bear in mind What our good God for us has done In sending His beloved Son With Mary holy we should pray To God with love this Christmas day In Bethlehem upon that morn There was a blessed Messiah born Near Bethlehem did shepherds meet Their flocks of lambs and feeding sheep To whom God's angels did appear Which put the shepherds in great fear "Prepare and go," the angels said "To Bethlehem, be not afraid For there you will find this happy morn A princely babe, sweet Jesus born" With thankful heart and joyful mind The shepherds went the babe to find And as God's angel had foretold They did our Savior Christ behold Within a manger He was laid And by His side the virgin maid Attending on the Lord of Life Who came to earth to end all strife