Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head

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Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head - arr. Paul Halley
Publication Details

Catalogue Number -
PEL2020 SATB

Voicing/Instrumentation -
SATB Choir Unaccompanied

Level of Difficulty - Moderate

Uses/Season -
Concert, Christmas, Service Anthem

Duration -
3:00 mins

Pages Music -
6 pages - 12 page booklet

Format -
SATB unaccompanied
choral octavo

Copyright Year - 1998

SATB perusal - page 1 of 6

Description/Remarks

An a cappella arrangement of the lovely Southern Appalachian Christmas carol which poignantly describes the simplicity of the Jesus’ manger bed in contrast to the opulent cradles of those born to the rich and powerful, who "sleep in feathers at their birth."
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"Spiced with inventive harmonies and textures, pieces like 'Jesus Jesus Rest Your Head' and 'Good King Wenceslas' take on new life. ”
– Lawrence Schenbeck, The Choral Journal

Sound Clip ◙♫
"Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head"
from What Child Is This? CD

Recording
What Child Is This?CD
PEL1005 - Track 4

PEL1005 CD
available in CD or digital format

Youtube video on our channel:
Paul Halley and Pelagosmusic

Youtube - Time 3:11
"Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head"
Words: Southern Appalachian
Music: Trad. arr. P. Halley

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Text

Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head

Southern Appalachian

Refrain:
Jesus, Jesus, rest your head,
You have got a manger bed;
All the evil folk on earth
Sleep in feathers at their birth;
Jesus, Jesus, rest your head,
You have got a manger bed.

Have you heard about our Jesus?
Have you heard about his fate?
How his mother went to that stable
On that Christmas Eve so late?
Winds were blowing, cows were lowing,
Stars we glowing, glowing, glowing.

Refrain

To that manger came then wise men,
Bringing things from hin and yon
For the mother and the father
And that blessed little son;
Milkmaids left their fields and flocks,
And sat beside the ass and ox.

Refrain