At Sunday Mass we occasionally sing…
Gloria in excelsis Deo Gloria, Gloria
…and after the repeats I have to stop because I don’t know the rest. Would someone fill them in, please?
(We don’t have song sheets for this one. Also.I Googled but without success.)
Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o’er the plains,
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains.
Refrain
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your heavenly song?
Refrain
Come to Bethlehem and see
Christ Whose birth the angels sing;
Come, adore on bended knee,
Christ the Lord, the newborn King.
Refrain
See Him in a manger laid,
Whom the choirs of angels praise;
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
While our hearts in love we raise.
Refrain
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Barn Owl - There is one modern version that goes:
Gloria in excelsis Deo, Gloria, Alleluia!
Gloria in excelsis Deo, Christ the Lord, Amen.
StG
Here’s a link to a Wiki article with the full Latin and English text for the Gloria.
Thank you!
I have to get some sleep, and then I’ll read the article.
(I like your name, freckafree. It’s fun to say! 
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I’m sorry you did all that typing, but it ain’t the one. I got that one Googling. The one I want I can’t even find in the song book we have at chirch…uh…church. 
Then we aren’t modern, I guess, cause that’s not it either.
Thank you very much,** StGermain,** for trying, though.
It sounds like the Gloria feckafree mentioned, but you mentioned singing
while the Gloria goes:
Is it possibly Merrily on High?
I think it is the Great Doxology (the one feckafree linked to) that **BarnOwl ** is probably thinking of. There are different versions of the music, from what I remember, and some of the lyrics are sometimes changed slightly to fit.
The one meek posted is a Christmas carol, which happens to contain the phrase “Gloria, in excelsis Deo,” but is called “Angels We Have Heard on High.”
Where’s a chorist when you need one?
Peck it out on your piano
A G F G A A# A A G
Gloria in excelsis DEeo
F F A# A A G
Gloria Glia
and repeat
You can tell I stay away from the inside of churches. My first thought was Van Morrison’s Gloria.
I prefer U2…
Gloria…in te domine
Gloria…exultate
Gloria…Gloria
It is even Latin
But then, I have actually used U2 Forty in church 
Si