{"id":5163,"date":"2021-12-12T00:03:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T00:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=5163"},"modified":"2026-02-10T23:22:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T23:22:27","slug":"the-first-noel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/the-first-noel\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Noel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">bill <span id=\"xyz_ihs_shortcode_5\" class=\"xyz_ihs_copy_shortcode\"> https:\/\/youtu.be\/vFuiS4o1PcA<\/span><span id=\"xyz_ihs_shortcode_5\" class=\"xyz_ihs_copy_shortcode\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">bill chase <span id=\"xyz_ihs_shortcode_5\" class=\"xyz_ihs_copy_shortcode\"> https:\/\/youtu.be\/hkcSDhq6Glg<\/span><span id=\"xyz_ihs_shortcode_5\" class=\"xyz_ihs_copy_shortcode\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>THE FIRST NOEL (C) 1833<br \/>\n[TRADITIONAL ENGLISH CAROL ]<br \/>\n[LIKELY 16TH OR 17TH CENTURY]<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-weight: 900;\"><strong>The [G] First [D] Noel, the [C] Angels did [G] say \r\n<\/strong><strong>was to [C] certain poor [Bm] shepherds in [C] fields as they [G] lay<\/strong>\r\n<strong>In [G] fields where [D] they lay [C] keeping their [G] sheep, <\/strong><strong>\r\non a [C] cold winter's [Bm] night that [C] was so [G] deep<\/strong>\r\n<strong>[G] Noel, [D] Noel, [C] Noel, [G] Noel\r\n - - [C] <\/strong><strong>Born is the [Bm] King of [C] Isra-[G]-el!\r\n[G] Noel, [D] Noel, [C] Noel, [G] Noel\r\n - - [C] <\/strong><strong>Born is the [Bm] King of [C] Isra-[G]-el!\r\n-\r\nTHEY LOOKED UP, AND SAW A STAR,\r\nSHINING IN THE EAST, BEYOND THEM FAR. \r\nAND TO THE EARTH, IT GAVE GREAT LIGHT, \r\nAND SO IT CONTINUED BOTH DAY AND NIGHT.\r\n\r\n(REPEAT CHORUS)\r\n\r\nAND BY THE LIGHT OF THAT SAME STAR\r\nTHREE WISE MEN CAME FROM COUNTRY FAR\r\nTO SEEK FOR A KING WAS THEIR INTENT,\r\nAND TO FOLLOW THE STAR WHEREVER IT WENT.\r\n\r\n(REPEAT CHORUS)\r\n\r\nTHIS STAR DREW NIGH TO THE NORTHWEST \r\nO'ER BETHLEHEM IT TOOK ITS REST\r\nAND THERE IT DID BOTH STOP AND STAY \r\nRIGHT O'ER THE PLACE WHERE JESUS LAY\r\n\r\nNOEL, NOEL, NOEL, NOEL. BORN IS THE KING OF ISRAEL\r\n<\/strong><\/span><\/pre>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/hark-the-herald-angels-sing\/\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bill https:\/\/youtu.be\/vFuiS4o1PcA bill chase https:\/\/youtu.be\/hkcSDhq6Glg THE FIRST NOEL (C) 1833 [TRADITIONAL ENGLISH CAROL ] [LIKELY 16TH OR 17TH CENTURY] The [G] First [D] Noel, the [C] Angels did [G] say was to [C] certain poor [Bm] shepherds in [C] fields as they [G] lay In [G] fields where [D] they &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/the-first-noel\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The First Noel<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,116,117,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-bill-chase","category-christmas","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29841,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5163\/revisions\/29841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}