( From the album "A Very Happy Christmas" )
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We three kings of orient are, bearing gifts we traverse afar
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Field and fountain, moor and mountain, following yonder star.
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cho: Oh, star of wonder, star of night, star with royal beauty bright.
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Westward leading, still proceeding,
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Guide with thy perfect light.
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(Melchior) Born a King on Bethlehem's plain,
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Gold I bring to crown him again
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King for ever, ceasing never over us all to reign. .....
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(Casper) Frankincense to offer have I, incense owns a Deity nigh
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Pray'r and praising, all men raising,
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Worship him, God most high, oh.....
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(Balthazar) Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume breathes a life of
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gathering gloom.
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Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying, sealed in the stone cold tomb.
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(all Glorious now behold him arise, king and God and sacrifice
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Alleluia, alleluia, heaven to earth replies. ....
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We Three Kings
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| Patti Smith |
