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Sting – Bethlehem Down (2009) | Track profile | Dork

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Sting
If on a Winter’s Night...
Bethlehem Down

TRACK

Bethlehem Down

Release date: 21st October 2009

From If on a Winter’s Night...

About This Track

"Bethlehem Down" is a track by Sting, from the album If on a Winter’s Night..., released 21st October 2009. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 3 articles about Sting.

About the Artist

Sting

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Lyrics

Bethlehem Down

"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

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Track details

From If on a Winter’s Night...

2009

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Album

If on a Winter’s Night...

Release year

2009

—There Is No Rose of Such Virtue
—Hurdy Gurdy Man
—Gabriel's Message
—Balulalow
—Blake's Cradle Song
—Cherry Tree Carol
—Christmas at Sea
—Cold Song
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—Lullaby for an Anxious Child
—Now Winter Comes Slowly
—The Burning Babe
—The Coventry Carol
—The Hounds of Winter (2009 Version)
—You Only Cross My Mind in Winter
—Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
—The Snow It Melts the Soonest
—Soul Cake

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Writer: Bruce Blunt, Peter Warlock
Producer: Robert Sadin