AND EVERY STONE SHALL CRY

Tune: PASTOR BONUS

Meter: 7 6 7 6
Text: A STABLE LAMP IS LIGHTED (CHRISTMAS)
Music: Fr. J. Roel Lungay, b. 1960 (© 1994)
Performed by Fr. J. Roel Lungay
Musical arrangements by Fr. J. Roel Lungay & Romeo Mascarinas
Orchestrated by Romeo Mascarinas

Mastered at Fro's Music
Slidell, LA

Cover Art by Glenn Angcla

1
A stable lamp is lighted
Whose glow shall wake the sky;
The stars shall bend their voices,
And every stone shall cry.

2
And every stone shall cry,
And straw like gold shall shine;
A barn shall harbor heaven,
A stall become a shrine.

(Interlude)

3
This child through David’s city
Shall ride in triumph by;
The palm shall strew its branches,
And every stone shall cry.

4
And every stone shall cry,
Though heavy, dull, and dumb,
And lie within the roadway
To pave his kingdom come.

(Interlude)

5
Yet he shall be forsaken,
And yielded up to die;
The sky shall groan and darken,
And every stone shall cry.

6
And every stone shall cry,
For hearts made hard by sin:
God’s blood upon the spearhead,
God’s love refused again.

(Interlude)

7 But now, as at the ending,
The low is lifted high;
The stars shall bend their voices,
And every stone shall cry.

8
And every stone shall cry,
In praises of the child
By whose descent among us
The worlds are reconciled.

Text: Richard Wilbur, b. 1921 © 1961
Music: PASTOR BONUS; Fr. J. Roel Lungay, b. 1960 (© 1994)