By Simon Donlon & Colm Flanagan

6 to 11 - KS1 & KS2 - optional harmony (1m 53s)

Download contains: piano-vocal score, lyric sheet, mp3 demo & backing tracks

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Themes - Christmas, Nativity, celebration

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Content – A wonderfully upbeat song to celebrate the birth of Jesus, ideal for inclusion in a Nativity or Christmas concert. Very catchy indeed! The optional harmony is easy to achieve for KS2 children, and the modulation into the final chorus makes for a joyful ending.

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Lyrics sample

Shepherds out one night

Saw a light, got a fright!

Angels came to them

Down in Bethlehem.

La, la, la-la-la, La-la-la, la-la-la!

La, la, la-la-la,

Down in Bethlehem.

In a stable bare

See the child lying there!

Sleeping in the hay

Down in Bethlehem....

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Down In Bethlehem features in the 9-song Christmas cantata  'One Night In Bethlehem'