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"Away in a Manger" is a Christmas carol first published in the late nineteenth century and used widely throughout the English-speaking world. In Britain, it is one of the most popular carols; a 1996 Gallup Poll ranked it joint second.〔(Away in a Manger ). Christmas-Carols.org.uk. Accessed 7 December 2009.〕 The two most-common musical settings are by William J. Kirkpatrick (1895) and James R. Murray (1887). ==History of the lyrics== (詳細はUniversalist Publishing House in Boston, Massachusetts. The article claims, under the heading "Luther's Cradle Song", that (This text would already have been out-of-date in May 1884, since the four hundredth anniversary of Luther's birth occurred in November 1883.) The first two verses generally agree with the currently accepted text: the only major difference is "Watching my lullaby" instead of "Til morning is nigh" for the last line of verse two. No music accompanies the words, but the melody of ''Home! Sweet Home!'' is suggested.〔 The song was later published with two verses in an Evangelical Lutheran Sunday School collection, ''Little Children's Book for Schools and Families'' (1885), where it simply bore the title "Away in a Manger" and was set to a tune called "St. Kilda," credited to J.E. Clark.〔(See this collection in Google Books, song no. 113 )〕 The third stanza, "Be near me, Lord Jesus" was first printed in ''Gabriel's Vineyard Songs'' (1892), where it appeared with a tune by Charles H. Gabriel (simply marked "C"), thus these words are probably by Gabriel. Gabriel credited the entire text to Luther and gave it the title "Cradle Song." This verse is sometimes attributed to Dr. John McFarland, but since the popular story dates his contribution to 1904 (postdating the 1892 printing by 12 years), his contribution is highly questionable.〔See the story in ''Our Hymnody: a manual of the Methodist hymnal'' (New York, etc., The Methodist Book Concern, 1937, p. 436)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Away in a Manger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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