Lyrics
(Folk carol)
1. The very first blessing Mary had, she had the blessing of one,
To think that her son Jesus was God’s eternal Son.
Was God’s eternal Son like the ‘manuel in glory.
Father, Son and the Holy Ghost through all eternity.
2. The very next blessing Mary had, she had the blessing of two,
To think that her son Jesus could read the Scriptures through,
Could read the Scriptures through like the Manuel in glory, Father, Son…
3. The very next blessing Mary had, she had the blessing of three,
To think that her son Jesus could set the prisoners free…
4. …four… could live forevermore…
5. …five…could bring the dead to ‘live…
6. …six…could heal and cure the sick…
7. seven…could carry the keys to heaven…
8. eight…could make the crooked straight…
9. nine…could turn the water to wine…
10. ten…could write without a pen…
11. eleven…could turn the world to heaven.
12. twelve…could turn the sick to well.
See also
- Subject: Christmas
- Meter: 4
- Scale: pentatonic
- Tones: l,drms
- Source: American Folk Songs for Children,Ruth Crawford Seeger, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948
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