Jesus, Jesus Rest Your Head

This harmonically inventive setting paints an intimate picture of the manger scene as it captures the poignant joy of singing a lullaby to the now mortal Christ Child.

Text

Jesus, Jesus, rest your head,
Lying in your manger bed.
All the evil folk on earth
Sleep in feathers at their birth.

Have you heard about our Jesus?
Have you heard about his fate? 
How his mother went to that stable
On that Christmas Eve so late?

Winds were blowing,
Cows were lowing,
Stars were glowing,
Glowing, glowing

To that manger
Came the wise men,
Bringing gifts so rich and rare.
For the mother and the father
And the blessed little son.
Shepherds left their fields and flocks
And sat beside the ass and ox.

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Orchestral Score and Parts 
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Orchestration: 1111 1000  str., 2 perc., hp.