Good Christians all, rejoice and sing!

(one verse introduction)

Good Christians all, rejoice and sing!
Let bells around the world now ring!
To all the world glad news we bring:
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

The God of life is risen today!
Sing songs of praise along the way;
let all the earth rejoice and say:
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Praise we in songs of victory
that love, that life which cannot die,
and sing with hearts uplifted high:
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Your Name we bless, O risen Christ,
and sing today with one accord
the life laid down, the life restored:
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

To God Creator, God the Child,
to God the spirit, always One,
we sing for life in us begun:
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

Words: Cyril A. Alington (19thC)
Music: Gelobt sei Gott, Melchoir Vulpius (17thC)
Sequence: Dall Forsythe, Church of St. John the Evangelist