"Vom Himmel hoch, o Engel, kommt" ("From Heaven on High The Angels Sing", literally: From Heaven on high, O angels, come), also known as "Susani", is a German Christmas carol.

In eight stanzas of two lines each, the angels are requested to come from Heaven, bring their musical instruments, and play and sing of Jesus and Mary, and ultimately for peace for the people.

[1] Similar to the Advent song "O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf", it belongs to a group of anonymous songs from the beginning of the 17th century which recent scholarship has attributed to Friedrich Spee,[2][3] however without certainty.

The song was reprinted in the 1623 hymnal Ausserlesene, catholische, geistliche Kirchengesäng of Jesuits in Cologne,[4] by Peter von Brachel[5] which is lost.

[6] The melody was derived from a version of "Puer natus in Bethlehem" which appeared in 1616 in a hymnal in Paderborn.

[7] Its Latin text was replaced by new poetry, while the repeated parts such as "Eia, Susani" and "Alleluja" were kept.

[8] The song was included in collections of the German Youth Movement, beginning in 1909 as "Vom Himmel hoch, O Englein kommt" in the Zupfgeigenhansl [de].

In the last stanza, the angels are requested to sing for peace for the people near and far, and praise God for ever.

Kommt ohne Instrumenten nit, eia ... bringt Lauten, Harfen, Geigen mit.