The Golden Bells

Welcome to the mer­ry

mer­ry Christ­mas time

Gladsome with me­lo­di­ous flow;

Sending out the mu­sic of its hopes sub­lime

Charming all the earth be­low.

Day of Heav’n’s im­part­ed peace

May we feel thy joys di­vine in­crease;

Catching still the beams of that clear morn

When our in­fant Lord was born.

Golden bells

chime on

chime on

Chime with tune­ful ring!

Ring! ring! bring! bring!

Greetings to our Sav­ior King!

Welcome to the mer­ry

mer­ry Christ­mas time

Teeming with good­will to man

Sweet as with the od­ors of an Ed­en clime

Chief in God’s re­deem­ing plan.

Man’s sal­va­tion is thy cheer

Thou hast ban­ished sin’s en­slav­ing fear

Scattering the gloom be­neath thy ray

From the Sav­ior’s na­tal day.

Happy be our greet­ings to the Christ­mas time

Brighter than with Beth­le­hem’s star

O’er the world re­joic­ing sounds its rich­est chime

Now its splen­dors blaze afar;

See the dead come forth to life

And the reign of love o’er-mas­ter strife;

Glory in the high­est be the song

Unto God from ev­ery tongue.