I’ve read a couple of posts these last few days (here and here) which take gentle issue with the more sanitised version of Jesus birth presented in carols like Away In A Manger or Silent Night. Well, the modern carol In A Byre Near Bethlehem / The Word Of Life is something of an antidote …
Sweet Bells, Kate Rusby’s first album of Yorkshire influenced Christmas Carols, continues to charm. Here’s Hark The Herald Angels Sing set to a reflective folk melody. The lyrics: 1. Hark! The herald angels sing, Glory to the newborn King, Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled. 2. Mild he lays his glory …
This afternoon at Boandik Lodge, a local old(er) folks home, along with lots of other carols, I’ll sing The North Wind. The notion of Australian themed Christmas carols may seem a bit quaint, but these songs are a vivid memory of Christmas growing up.(And probably are for most Australians who grow up in the 1960s …
The Coventry Carol is a reconstruction of a traditional carol text from the 16th century. It uses as its reference point the massacre of the infants from Matthew 2. Here’s one version of the lyrics. 1. Lully, lullay, Thou little tiny Child, Bye, bye, lully, lullay. Lullay, thou little tiny Child, Bye, bye, lully, lullay. …
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