Song: Once in Royal David's City

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Music written by

Henry Gauntlett

Lyrics written by

Cecil Alexander

Composition date

1849

Language

English

Comments

The lyrics come from a poem by Cecil Alexander, published in 1848. Gauntlett composed the music about one year later.

Versions

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	Once in Royal David's City	New Dublin Voices	2010
2	Once in Royal David's City	Neal Ewers	1999
3	Once in Royal David's City	David Phillips [1]	2011
4	Once in Royal David's City	David M. Bailey	2006
5	Once in Royal David's City	David Krienke	December 12, 2010
6	Once in Royal David City	Nancy Hanson	2003
7	Once in Royal David's City	Trine Gadeberg	2008
8	Once in Royal David's City	Robert Lunn [1]	2011
9	Once in Royal David's City	The Black House Ceilidh	October 8, 2006
10	Once in Royal David's City	The Lyric Brass Quintet	2002
11	Once in Royal David's City	Linn Barnes and Allison Hampton	1995
12	Once in Royal David's City	Leo Adrien Gosselin	2006
13	Once in Royal David's City	James Spalink	2003
14	Once in Royal David's City	Kris Baines	2002
15	Once in Royal David's City	Samuel Cho and Shane Spangler	2010
16	Once in Royal David's City	Bert Clarke	2010
17	Once in Royal David's City	Chuck Stevens	November 1, 2005
18	Once in Royal David's City/We Three Kings	El McMeen	2004
19	Once in David's Royal City	Earl Wentz	2006
20	Once in Royal David's City	Annie McGee	2010
21	Once in Royal David's City	Anne & Pete Sibley	2007
22	Once in Royal David's City	Manor House String Quartet	2010
23	Once in Royal David's City	Bronn Journey	1999
24	Medley: Once in Royal David's City/Ding Dong Merrily on High/O Come All Ye Faithful	The Chieftains with The Renaissance Singers	1991
25	Once in Royal David's City	Sufjan Stevens	November 21, 2006
26	Once in Royal David's City	The Ivy League	December 1965
27	Once in Royal David's City	Roger Moore	1959
28	Once in Royal David's City	The Mormon Tabernacle Choir	October 1963
29	Once in Royal David's City	Mary Chapin Carpenter	September 30, 2008
30	Love Came Down at Christmas / Once in Royal David's City	Barbara Gallagher	2002