Gentle Mary Laid Her Child: notes for 8 instruments

“Gentle Mary laid her Child…” Pick your instrument. Each page shows the notes in the easiest key that fits it, with a play-along player and a print sheet.

Not on bells & xylophone, harmonica: no key keeps every note on those instruments without sharps, flats or bends.

Words (first verse)

Gentle Mary laid her Child lowly in a manger;
There He lay, the undefiled, to the world a Stranger:
Such a Babe in such a place, can He be the Savior?
Ask the saved of all the race who have found His favor.

About this song

Melody
Tune TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM, from Swedish Piae Cantones (1582), 1582
Words
Joseph Simpson Cook (1859–1933), 1919 (first verse shown; all verses on HymnKeys)
Public domain
Melody 1582, words 1919: first published before 1931.
Source
Open Hymnal Project file marked public domain, via HymnKeys

All verses, slides and print on HymnKeys