Talang Gabay

Lyrics

I
Kumislap sa pastulang
kinupkop ng gabi,
ang hatid ay balita
ng pagbubunyi:
'Sinilang sa may sabsaban,
Pastol ng Sangkatauhan.

II
Kuminang sa hiraya
ng ibang lupain:
"Maglakbay at magtungo
sa landas ng bituin!"
Hahanapin ng Haring Mago
ang Hari ng mundo.

REFRAIN
Ang liwanag ng Talang Gabay
na suminag sa mundong nahimlay,
ginising ang diwa.
O, magsaya! Ang Diyos, sumaatin na!

III
Tanglawa't patnubayan,
o butihing bituin,
daigdig na alila
ng lungkot at dilim;
ituro kay Hesukristo,
Pag-asa ng mundo! (REFRAIN)

BRIDGE
Sumaatin na ang Tagapagpalaya. Magsaya! (REFRAIN)

CODA
O, magsaya ang Diyos sumaatin na
Sumaatin! Magsaya!

Information

Words: Roy Tolentino 
Music: Barok Gutierrez 
Arrangement: Norman Agatep

One night there went out over the stillness of an evening breeze, out over the white chalk hills of Bethlehem, a cry, a gentle cry. The sea did not hear the cry, for the sea was filled with its own voice. The earth did not hear the cry, for the earth slept. The great men of the earth did not hear the cry, for they could not understand how a Child could be greater than a man. The kings of the earth did not hear the cry, for they could not fathom how a King could be born in a stable. There were only two classes of men who heard the cry that night: Shepherds and Wise Men. Shepherds: Those who know they know nothing. Wise Men: Those who know they do not know everything. Shepherds: Poor simple men who knew only how to tend their flocks; who perhaps could not tell who was the Governor of Judea; who perhaps did not know a single line of Virgil, though there was not a Roman who could not quote from him. On the other hand, there were the Wise Men: not Kings, but teachers of Kings; men who knew how to read the stars and tell the story of their movements; men who were constantly bent on discovery. Both of these heard the cry. The Shepherds found their Shepherd, and the Wise Men discovered Wisdom. And the Shepherd and the Wisdom was a Babe in a crib. - from Archbishop Fulton Sheen's "The Divine Romance"