"Shout!" Original Hymn (Christmas Eve)
"Shout!" Original Hymn (Christmas Eve)
DIGITAL SHEET MUSIC DOWNLOAD
This hymn, originally written for the What do you fear? bundle for Advent 2025, is created for use in congregational worship and other ministry contexts. We’ve set fresh words of faith to a well-loved public domain hymn tune for maximum singability.
License for congregational use is included in the purchase—no reporting to CCLI or other licensing agencies is required. To inquire about other uses, such as recording or publishing, please contact us.
Shout!
Inspired by Luke 2:1-20
Tune: GREENSLEEVES 8.7.8.7 with refrain (“What Child is This”)
Words: Anna Strickland, 2025
Music: Traditional English melody, 16th cent.
DOWNLOAD includes:
PDF sheet music with four-part harmony
JPG image of the lyrics and melody for use in bulletins
Lyrics to copy and paste for bulletins and screens
Lyrics:
When fear lies like a blanket thick and mutes the joy of living
When Herod reigns with terror great, the angels break in singing
Refrain:
Shout! Shout your glorias in all the earth and heav’n above
Shout! Shout the angels’ news that hope is born in Jesus
The piercing song the angels bring to unsuspecting shepherds
Is hard to hear with frightened ears so used to news of terror
Refrain:
Shout! Shout your glorias in all the earth and heav’n above
Shout! Shout the angels’ news that hope is born in Jesus
Surrender to the joy this night of God incarnate born for us
Shout in the streets, wake those who sleep to join the angel chorus
Refrain:
Shout! Shout your glorias in all the earth and heav’n above
Shout! Shout the angels’ news that hope is born in Jesus
credit info:
Hymn text by Rev. Anna Strickland | A Sanctified Art, LLC | sanctifiedart.org
