Enya - Adeste, Fideles (Original Instrumental)

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"Adeste, Fideles" is the first track and a Christmas carol cover by Irish musician, songwriter and singer Enya, from bonus disc of her sixth studio album, Amarantine (Special Christmas edition), released on November 21, 2005 by Warner Bros. Records, and her fourth extended play Sounds Of The Season: The Enya Collection (re-released as a four-track edition Christmas Secrets EP in Canada), released on November 28, 2006 exclusively in the United States in Target stores by Rhino Custom Products and NBC Universal. In November 2006, the UK and Ireland, the song was contained in It's In The Rain single as double A-side to promote the reissue of the Amarantine album.

The song is also known as "O Come, All Ye Faithful" in English, which is originally a Christmas carol that has been attributed to various authors, including John Francis Wade (1711–1786), John Reading (1645–1692), King John IV of Portugal (1604–1656), and anonymous Cistercian monks. The earliest printed version is in a book published by Wade. A manuscript by Wade, dating to 1751, is held by Stonyhurst College in Lancashire.

Enya: "The new songs are now on a special edition of Amarantine released for Christmas. The pieces are pieces that mean a lot to me for Christmas. The only original pieces: it’s Adeste Fideles, which is O Come All Ye Faithful, and I’ve always sung it in Latin, so I thought it was important to me to sing it as I’ve always known it singing it as a child growing up."
WM Japan Interview. December 2006

- Lyrics

Adeste, fideles
Laeti triumphantes
Venite, venite in Bethlehem
Natum videte
Regem Angelorum

Venite adoremus
Venite adoremus
Venite adoremus, Dominum

Deum de Deo
Lumen de lumine
Gestant puellae viscera
Deum verum
Genitum non factum

Venite adoremus
Venite adoremus
Venite adoremus, Dominum

Uuuuh, uuuh (Cantet nunc chorus angelorum)
Uuuh, uuuh (Cantet nunc aula caelestium)
Gloria in excelsis Deo
Venite adoremus
Venite adoremus
Venite adoremus, Dominum