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PBS News Hour - Segments

'Joy to the World' performed by U.S. armed forces musicians

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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We continue with a News Hour holiday tradition in which we ask members of the armed forces to record a holiday song. For Christmas Eve, we bring you "Joy to the World." This video was produced by the Pentagon's Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Speaking of Christmas carols, on this Christmas Eve, we continue a news hour tradition, where we ask the members of the armed forces to record a holiday song for us.

0:10.6

Tonight, it's joy to the world.

0:12.7

This was produced by the Pentagon's Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. The Joy to the world the world the world is come, let earth receive were king.

0:58.0

Let every heart prepare him room.

1:06.0

And heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing and heaven and nature sing

1:13.6

and heaven and heaven and nature sing Joy to the world, the Savior reigns, let men their songs employoy while fields and floods rocks hills and plains repeat the sounding joy repeat the sounding joy repeat the sounding joy. Repeat, repeat the sounding joy. I'm going to He rules the world with truth and grace

2:39.5

and makes the nation's crew

2:45.1

The glory is half of his righteousness

2:54.0

And wonders of his love

2:58.9

And wonders of his love

3:02.7

And wonders, wonders of his love. You know,

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