Released: October 21, 2009
Songwriter: Peter Warlock Bruce Blunt
Producer: Robert Sadin
"When He is King we will give Him a King's gifts
Myrrh for its sweetness, and gold for a crown
Beautiful robes", said the young girl to Joseph
Fair with her first-born on Bethlehem Down
Bethlehem Down is full of the starlight
Winds for the spices, and stars for the gold
Mary for sleep, and for lullaby music
Songs of a shepherd by Bethlehem fold
When He is King they will clothe Him in grave-sheets
Myrrh for embalming, and wood for a crown
He that lies now in the white arms of Mary
Sleeping so lightly on Bethlehem Down
Here He has peace and a short while for dreaming
Close-huddled oxen to keep him from cold
Mary for love, and for lullaby music
Songs of a shepherd by Bethlehem Down
Myrrh for its sweetness, and gold for a crown
Beautiful robes", said the young girl to Joseph
Fair with her first-born on Bethlehem Down
Bethlehem Down is full of the starlight
Winds for the spices, and stars for the gold
Mary for sleep, and for lullaby music
Songs of a shepherd by Bethlehem fold
When He is King they will clothe Him in grave-sheets
Myrrh for embalming, and wood for a crown
He that lies now in the white arms of Mary
Sleeping so lightly on Bethlehem Down
Here He has peace and a short while for dreaming
Close-huddled oxen to keep him from cold
Mary for love, and for lullaby music
Songs of a shepherd by Bethlehem Down
more tracks from the album
If on a Winter’s Night...
- The Hounds of Winter
- Bethlehem Down
- The Coventry Carol
- You Only Cross My Mind in Winter
- Hurdy Gurdy Man
- Lullaby for an Anxious Child
- Cherry Tree Carol
- Balulalow
- Now Winter Comes Slowly
- The Burning Babe
- Cold Song
- Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
- Christmas at Sea
- The Snow It Melts the Soonest
- There Is No Rose of Such Virtue
- Soul Cake
- Gabriel’s Message
- Blake’s Cradle Song
From the albums
- Sweet Tracks 2003 (2003)
- If on a Winter’s Night... (2009)
Sting popular songs
- Shape of My Heart
- Englishman in New York
- Desert Rose
- Fields of Gold
- Fragile
- Russians
- It’s Probably Me
- If I Ever Lose My Faith in You
- Brand New Day
- Seven Days
- Mad About You
- A Thousand Years
- Soul Cake
- I Can’t Stop Thinking About You
- If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
- All This Time
- When We Dance
- If It’s Love
- The Last Ship
- Fortress Around Your Heart
- Children’s Crusade
- Moon Over Bourbon Street
- Synchronicity I
- Giacomo’s Blues