What Child is This?/Child of the Poor

This Christmas countermelody is played to the tune of "Greensleeves".

Lyrics
[Kimberly AJ]
 * Helpless and hungry, lowly, afraid
 * Wrapped in the chill of midwinter;
 * Comes now among us, born into poverty’s embrace,
 * new life for the world


 * Who is this who lives with the lowly,
 * Sharing their sorrows, knowing their hunger?
 * This is Christ, revealed to the world
 * In the eyes of a child, a child of the poor

[Méav Ní Mhaolchatha]
 * What Child is this who, laid to rest
 * On Mary’s lap is sleeping?
 * Whom angels greet with anthems sweet,
 * While shepherds watch are keeping?
 * This, this is Christ the King,
 * Whom shepherds guard and angels sing;
 * Haste, haste, to bring Him laud,
 * The Babe, the Son of Mary.

[Dual countermelody in duet]
 * Why lies He in such mean estate, (Who is the stranger here in our midst,)
 * Where ox and ass are feeding? (Looking for shelter among us?)
 * Good Christians, fear, for sinners here (Who is the outcast? Who do we see amid the poor,)
 * The silent Word is pleading. (the children of God?)
 * Nails, spear shall pierce Him through, (Who is this who lives with the lowly,)
 * The cross be borne for me, for you. (Sharing their sorrows, knowing their hunger?)
 * Hail, hail the Word made flesh, (This is Christ, revealed to the world)
 * The Babe, the Son of Mary. (In the eyes of a child, a child of the poor)


 * Raise, raise a song on high, (Who is this who lives with the lowly,)
 * The virgin sings her lullaby. (Sharing their sorrows, knowing their hunger?)
 * Joy, joy for Christ is born, (This is Christ, revealed to the world)
 * The Babe, the Son of Mary. (In the eyes of a child, a child of the poor)

[Kimberly] In the eyes of a child...

[Méav Ní Mhaolchatha] The Babe...

[Duet]
 * the Son... of Mary. (a child... of the poor)