O Come All Ye Faithful

Listening to Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir, in the 2015 rendition of “O Come All Ye Faithful"¹ (Laura Osnes as soloist) there is an added verse. Upon looking in to it, the hymnbook also omits a doctrinally incorrect verse² that other versions have. The arrangement was by Sam Cardon, who has arranged many Tabernacle Choir pieces.

Hymnbook Lyrics

202 Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful

Majestically

1. Oh, come, all ye faithful,

Joyful and triumphant!

Oh, come ye, oh come ye to Bethlehem.

Come and behold him,

Born the King of angels;

[Chorus:]

Oh, come, let us adore him;

Oh, come, let us adore him;

Oh, come, let us adore him,

Christ, the Lord.

2.x [OMITTED in the LDS hymns]

God of God light of light

Lo he abhors not the virgin’s womb

Very God begotten not created

O come let us adore him Christ the Lord.

[CHORUS]

2.a [ADDED in concert Cardon version]

See how the sheperds summoned to his cradle

Leaving their flocks, draw nigh with lowly fear

We too will thither hend our joyful footsteps

O come, let us adore him, Christ the Lord

[CHORUS]

1. — Yea, Lord, we greet thee,

Born this happy morning;

— Jesus, to thee be all glory giv’n.

Son of the Father,

Now in flesh appearing;

[CHORUS]

Text: Attr. to John F. Wade, ca. 1711–1786; trans. by Frederick Oakeley, 1802–1880

Footnotes

¹ The performance can be found on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0F_sVaSVqI

² An example of the alternative lyrics seems to be from the Westminster Cathedral Choir at https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/1465432/Westminster+Cathedral+Choir/O+Come+All+Ye+Faithful