The Wexford Carol

Good people all
 This Christmas-time
 Consider well
 And bear in mind
 What our good God
 For us has done
 In sending
 His beloved Son
 With Mary holy
 We should pray
 To God with love
 This Christmas Day
 In Bethlehem
 Upon that morn
 There was
 A blessed
 Messiah born
 Near Bethlehem
 Did shepherds keep
 Their flocks
 Of lambs
 And feeding sheep
 To whom
 God's angels
 Did appear
 Which put
 The shepherds
 In great fear
 "Prepare and go"
 The angels said
 To Bethlehem
 Be not afraid
 For there
 You'll find
 This happy morn
 A princely Babe
 Weet Jesus born
 With thankful heart
 And joyful mind
 The shepherds
 Went the Babe
 To find
 And as God's angel
 Had foretold
 They did our
 Saviour Christ
 Behold
 Within a manger
 He was laid
 And by his side
 The Virgin Maid
 As long foretold
 There was
 A blessed
 Messiah born