I Wish I'd Been in Bethlehem Lyrics

I wish I’d been in Bethlehem

The day the Saviour was born

I wish I’d gone to worship Him

That gray Decmber morn.

I wish I’d seen Mary in all her joy

There ‘mid the cattle and sheep

And watch’d her fondle her baby Boy

And heard her croon Him to sleep.

I wish I'd been near Galilee

To see what Jesus did then,

And heard him say,"Come, follow Me -

I’ll make you fishers of men.”

I wish I'd been part of that little band

That heard ev’ry word that He said,

And felt the touch of His gentle hand,

And dried the tears that He shed.

I wish I’d been at Calvary

The day He suffered and died.

Oh, what a privilege ’would be

To bear a cross by His side!

I wish I’d have shared His great agony

And felt the sharp thorns in my brow,

But could He ever mean more to me

Than Jesus means to me now