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Go Tell It
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Sep 28, 2026 updated
Unto Us album
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Song Meaning
Aaron Shust's "Go Tell It on the Mountain" keeps the spiritual's original shape and command — not a quiet, private reflection on Christmas, but an order to go say something out loud. The verses narrate the scene Luke records: shepherds keeping watch over their flocks by night, then a holy light breaking across the sky and an angel chorus announcing what had just happened in Bethlehem.
The detail the song doesn't skip past is the shepherds' fear — they "feared and trembled" at the sight, a very human reaction to something that big showing up in an ordinary field. It's only after the angels speak that the fear turns into singing, the same shepherds who trembled becoming the first people to spread the news, "over the hills and everywhere."
That's the whole logic of the refrain repeated after every verse: "go, tell it on the mountain, that Jesus Christ is born." Good news, once actually understood, doesn't stay contained to the people who first heard it — Shust's arrangement leans into that momentum, letting the final repetitions build like a message being carried further and further from where it started.
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Go, Tell It On The Mountain,
Over the hills and everywhere;
Go, Tell It On The Mountain
That Jesus Christ is born.
While shepherds kept their watching
Over silent flocks by night,
Behold throughout the heavens,
There shone a holy light.
Go, Tell It On The Mountain,
Over the hills and everywhere;
Go, Tell It On The Mountain
That Jesus Christ is born.
Well the shepherds feared and trembled
When low above the earth
Rang out the angel chorus
That hailed our Saviour's birth
And they all were singin'
Go, Tell It On The Mountain,
Over the hills and everywhere;
Go, Tell It On The Mountain
That Jesus Christ is born.
Go, Tell It On The Mountain,
Over the hills and everywhere;
Go, Tell It On The Mountain
That Jesus Christ is born.
On this Christmas morning
The son of God is born in Bethlehem
[x4]
Down in a lowly manger
Our humble Christ was born
And God send us salvation
That blessed Christmas morn
Go, Tell It On The Mountain,
Over the hills and everywhere;
Go, Tell It On The Mountain
That Jesus Christ is born.
Go, Tell It On The Mountain,
Over the hills and everywhere;
Go, Tell It On The Mountain
That Jesus Christ is born.
That Jesus Christ is born.
That Jesus Christ is born.
On this Christmas morning
The son of God is born in Bethlehem