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Verse 1

 A spaceman came travelling on his ship from afar

 't was light years of time since his mission did start.

 And over a village he halted his craft

 and it hung in the sky like a star - just like a star.

Verse 2

He followed a light and came down to a shed

where mother and child were lying there on a bed.

A bright light of silver shone round his head

and he had the face of an angel. And they were afraid

Verse 3

When the stranger spoke, he said "Do not fear!

I come from a planet a long way from here,

and I bring a message for mankind to hear."

Suddenly the sweetest music filled the air

Chorus

and it went,

la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,

la, la, la, la, la, la, la,

la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,

Verse 4

This lovely music went trembling through the ground

and many were wakened on hearing the sound

and travellers on the road the village the found

by the light of that ship in the sky

which shone all around.

Verse 5

And just before dawn at the paling of the sky

the stranger returned and said: "Now I must fly!

When two thousand years of your time has gone by

,this song will begin once again to a baby's cry!"

Chorus

s.a.)