But what are its origins and what are the lyrics? ‘We Three Kings’ (or ‘We Three Kings of Orient Are’) is an Aeolian mode Christmas carol dating from 1857. The carol was composed by American clergyman ...

Not often found in hymnals today, this carol (“We Three Kings of Orient Are”) is nonetheless ... Hopkins wrote the words and music for this carol in 1857. (Jesus rose from the dead – and ...

And the carol getting a kind of blue, kind of groovy treatment from the jazz legend is “We Three Kings of Orient Are ... in 1850 and was teaching church music at New York’s General Theological ...