Text:What Tidings Bring'st Us, Messenger?
Author (attr. to) (burden and sts. 1-4:John Audelay
Tune:[A babe is born of high nature]
Arranger:Elizabeth Poston, 1905-

177. What Tidings Bring'st Us, Messenger?

Text Information
First Line: A babe is born of high nature
Title: What Tidings Bring'st Us, Messenger?
Author (attr. to) (burden and sts. 1-4: John Audelay
Refrain First Line: What tidings bring'st us, messenger
Publication Date: 1967
Topic: Christmas
Source: Burden and stanzas 1, 2, 3, 4: Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. 0.3.58; 15th century; stanza 5: Bodleian Library MS.
Tune Information
Name: [A babe is born of high nature]
Arranger: Elizabeth Poston, 1905-
Incipit: 11654 35435 5655
Key: D Major
Source: 15th-century carol tune, Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. 0.3.58



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