Text: | O sisters too |
Tune: | COVENTRY CAROL |
Arranger: | Martin Shaw, 1875-1958 |
Refrain:
Lully, lulla,
thou little tiny child,
by by, lully lullay.
2 O sisters too,
how may we do
for to preserve this day
this poor youngling,
for whom we do sing
by by, lully lullay?
3 Herod the king,
in his raging,
charged he hath this day
his men of might,
in his own sight,
all young children to slay.
4 That woe is me,
poor child for thee!
and ever morn and day,
for thy parting
neither say nor sing
by by, lully lullay! [Refrain]
Text Information | |
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First Line: | O sisters too |
Refrain First Line: | Lully, lulla |
Meter: | 44 6 D and refrain |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2000 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Christmas; Christmas I: Year C |
Source: | English, 15th century |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | COVENTRY CAROL |
Arranger: | Martin Shaw, 1875-1958 |
Meter: | 44 6 D and refrain |
Key: | g minor |
Source: | English 15th-century melody (later from) |
Copyright: | Arrangement © Mowbray. Reproduced with the kind permission of Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. |