January 1 in the twelve days of Christmas can focus on Mary. Oddly, Mary is not particularly present in the Christmas Carol tradition. This may have been because the popular Christmas songs came from the protestant traditions, and Mary was consciously (or unconsciously) not focused upon. Gabriel’s Song (The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came) was …
Last week I posted a cover version of Fields Of Gold by Ellie and Drew Holcomb. At today’s funeral we played the original by Sting. I have one other cover sublime version that I’ll post sometime soon. The song does make reference to various seasons of life; their commonalities and difference. It also evokes a …
So, earlier today I posted a new song for children by Ellie Holcomb. Earlier than that today I was organising a funeral at which the deceased had asked for the song Fields Of Gold by Sting to be played. Then I saw that Ellie Holcomb and her husband Drew have just released a cover of …
There Is No Rose Of Such Virtue is an archaic text in its origin, sung here by Sting on his album If On A Winter’s Night…. The rose in question seems to be Mary, but the lyric is more of a ‘Mary Did You Know’ sort of Mary, rather than a Queen of Heaven one.
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