DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR​​
Bing Crosby

Said the night wind to the little lamb,
Do you see what I see,
Do you see what I see?
Way up in the sky, little lamb.

 

Do you see what I see?
Do you see what I see?
A star, a star,
Dancing in the night
With a tail as big as a kite,
With a tail as big as a kite.

 

Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy,
Do you hear what I hear?
Do you hear what I hear?
Ringing thru the sky, shepherd boy.

 

Do you hear what I hear?
Do you hear what I hear?
A song, a song
High above the tree with a voice
As big as the sea,
With a voice as big as the sea.

 

Said the shepherd boy to the mighty king,
Do you know what I know?
Do you know what I know?
In your palace warm, mighty king.

 

Do you know what I know?
Do you know what I know?
A child, a child shivers in the cold,
Let us bring him silver and gold,
Let us bring him silver and gold.

 

Said the king to the people everywhere,
Listen to what I say,
Listen to what I say,
Pray for peace, people everywhere.

 

Listen to what I say,
Listen to what I say,
The child, the child
Sleeping in the night,
He will bring us goodness and light,
He will bring ….us… goodness... and ..light…

 

 

"Do You Hear What I Hear?" is a song written in October 1962, with lyrics by Noël Regney and music by Gloria Shayne.

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Bing Crosby made the song into a hit when he recorded his own version of it on October 21, 1963, with the record being released as a single on October 26. Crosby also performed the song on a Bob Hope Christmas television special on December 13 of that year. Over the years, Crosby's recording of the song has been widely played on the radio and has been available on numerous compilation Christmas albums and compact discs put out by Capitol Records.

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SYNOPSIS

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"Do You Hear What I Hear?" tells a story loosely based upon the story of the Nativity of Jesus as told in the Gospel of Matthew, incorporating fragments of the annunciation to the shepherds from the Gospel of Luke, though Jesus is never mentioned by name or explicitly identified.

 

A "night wind" tells a lamb of a star, following which the lamb tells his young shepherd that he also hears a loud song. They are each led to a "mighty king," whom they tell of a child in the cold and ask to bring the child silver and gold (much as the Biblical Magi, which in tradition with prophecies in the Book of Isaiah and Psalm 72 are often characterized as kings, did with their gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh).

 

The king proclaims a prayer of peace and announces that the child will "bring goodness and light".

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Recorded and mixed on Logic Pro X in December 2018