Somehow it appears I never made a backing for this popular Christmas Carol.
The text is by Cecil Alexander and the music by Henry J. Gauntlett.
I made my backing by downloading the BIAB file at smallchurchmusic and dumbing his file down to match the sheet music and using simple free organ VSTs on the modified BIAB file.
On the other hand Clyde McLennan at smallchurchmusic records his own playing as a midi file then puts it through proper virtual organs to sound much much better:
1 Once in royal David’s city
stood a lowly cattle shed,
where a mother laid her baby
in a manger for his bed:
Mary was that mother mild,
Jesus Christ, her little child.
2 He came down to earth from heaven
who is God and Lord of all;
and his shelter was a stable
and his cradle was a stall:
with the poor and mean and lowly
lived on earth our Saviour holy.
3 And through all his wondrous childhood
he would honour and obey,
love and watch the gentle mother
in whose tender arms he lay:
Christian children all should be
kind, obedient, good as he.
4 For he is our childhood’s pattern:
day by day like us he grew,
he was little, weak and helpless,
tears and smiles like us he knew;
and he feels for all our sadness,
and he shares in all our gladness.
5 And our eyes at last shall see him,
through his own redeeming love,
for that child so dear and gentle
is our Lord in heaven above;
and he leads his children on
to the place where he is gone.
6 Not in that poor lowly stable
with the oxen standing by,
we shall see him, but in heaven,
set at God’s right hand on high;
there his children gather round
bright like stars, with glory crowned.