Christmas carols : $b Old English carols for Christmas and other festivals
General
Christmas carols : $b Old English carols for Christmas and other festivals
Carols
[Music: PART II.]
5. We have a little purse,
It is made of rabbit skin,
We want a little sixpence
To line it well within.
CHORUS.
Love and joy come to you,
And to you your wassail too!
And God bless you, and send you a happy New Year,
And God send you a happy New Year!
6. Call up the Butler of this house
Put on his golden ring;
Let him bring us a glass of beer
And the better we shall sing.
Love and joy, etc.
7. Bring us out a table
And spread it with a cloth;
Bring us out a mouldy cheese,
And some of your Christmas loaf.
Love and joy, etc.
8. God bless the Master of this house,
Likewise the Mistress too;
And all the little children
That round the table go.
Love and joy, etc.
[Illustration]
The Boar’s Head Carol
[Illustration]
[Music]
1.
The boar’s head in hand bear I,
Bedeck’d with bays and rosemary,
And I pray you, my masters, be merry
_Quot estis in convivio_.
CHORUS.
_Caput apri defero.
Reddons laudes Domino._
2.
The boar’s head as I understand
Is the bravest dish in all the land;
When thus bedecked with a gay garland
Let us _servire cantico_.
_Caput apri defero
Reddons laudes Domino._
3.
Our steward hath provided this
In honour of the King of Bliss,
Which on this day to be served is
In _regimensi atrio_.
_Caput apri defero
Reddons laudes Domino._
[Illustration]
[Illustration]
[Illustration]
Let all that are to mirth inclined
[Illustration]
[Music]
1. Let all that are to mirth inclined
Consider well, and bear in mind
What our good God for us has done,
In sending His Belovèd Son.
CHORUS.
For, to redeem our souls from thrall,
Christ is the Saviour of us all.
2. Let all your songs and praises be
Unto His Heavenly Majesty;
And evermore, amongst our mirth,
Remember Christ our Saviour’s birth.
For, to redeem our souls from thrall,
Christ is the Saviour of us all.
3. If choirs of Angels did rejoice,
Well may mankind with heart and voice
Sing praises to the God of Heaven,
Who unto us His Son has given.
For, to redeem our souls from thrall,
Christ is the Saviour of us all.
[Illustration]
King Pharaoh—Part I.
[Illustration]
[Music: THE MIRACLE OF THE COCK
SUSSEX GYPSIES’ CAROL.]
1. King Pharaoh sat a-musing,
A-musing all alone;
There came the blessèd Saviour,
Though all to him unknown.
2. “Say, where did you come from, good man?
Oh, where did you then pass?”
“It is out of the Land of Egypt,
Between an ox and ass.”
3. “Oh, if you come out of Egypt, man,
One thing I deem thou know’st:
Is Jesus born of Mary
And of the Holy Ghost?
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