Oh Come All Ye Faithful

David Dunn's take on "O Come All Ye Faithful" stays close to the eighteenth-century original, letting the hymn's own logic do the work rather than adding new lyrics. The call is straightforward and repeated: "O come ye, oh come ye, to Bethlehem" — not an invitation to admire from a distance, but to go and look, the way the shepherds did after the angels spoke.

The second verse pulls in the full choir of heaven — "sing, all ye citizens of heaven above" — echoing Luke's account of the angel host praising God the night Christ was born. Then the hymn turns from the angels to the singer directly: "Son of the Father, now in flesh appearing," a line that leans on John's description of the Word becoming flesh and dwelling among us, God not staying distant but showing up as a person who could be seen and touched.

By the final "O come, O come, O come" — the words stripped down to almost nothing — Dunn's arrangement makes the hymn's real point plain: adoration isn't a formality tacked onto Christmas, it's the only sane response once you understand who's actually in the manger.