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| 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 | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|
| 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. |
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