Joy to the World ist eines der beliebtesten und bekanntesten Weihnachtslieder aus dem angelsächsischen Sprachraum.

Den Text dichtete Isaac Watts (1674-1748) im Jahre 1719 nach einen Psalm König Davids. Die Musik basiert auf der Komposition "Der Messias" von Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) und wurde von Lowell Mason (1792-1872) im Jahre 1836 arrangiert.

Joy to the World nahmen zahlreiche Größen des Musikgeschäfts in ihre Christmas-Alben auf. Beispiele:

• Johnny Cash - Country Christmas (1970)
• Mariah Carey - MERRY CHRISTMAS (1994)
• Neil Diamond - Christmas Album (Vol. 2) (1994)
• Placido Domingo - Christmas in Vienna VII (2001)
• Mahalia Jackson - Joy to the World - A Gospel Chritmas (2005)

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Joy to the world, the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare Him room, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.

Joy to the world, the Savior reigns! Let men their songs employ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains Repeat the sounding joy, Repeat the sounding joy, Repeat, repeat, the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found, Far as the curse is found, Far as, far as, the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace, And makes the nations prove The glories of His righteousness, And wonders of His love, And wonders of His love, And wonders, wonders, of His love.''

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