Making lyrics fit well or relatively well is a good pastime.On Epiphany morning, as you are singing "What Child Is This" (tune: Greensleeves), you begin to think about how it would go in Latin. You recognize that many of the words are within your Latin vocabulary. By the end of the song, you have worked out "Hic, hic est Christus Rex" as the first line of the refrain.
And it keeps running through your head until you come up with a translation of the first verse. I actually completed this in two or three days, but became distracted with other things and forgot to share it until now.On Epiphany morning, as you are singing "What Child Is This" (tune: Greensleeves), you begin to think about how it would go in Latin. You recognize that many of the words are within your Latin vocabulary. By the end of the song, you have worked out "Hic, hic est Christus Rex" as the first line of the refrain.