A carol for Christmas day at night

from Old Christmas Returned by Passamezzo

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Seventeenth Century Christmas ballad to the tune of Greensleeves

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A Carol for Christmas Day at Night
My master and dame, I well perceive are purposed to be merry tonight,
And willingly have given me leave to combat with a Christmas knight.
Sir Pig, I see, comes prancing in and bids me draw if that I dare;
I care not for his valour a pin, for Jack of him will have a share.
My Lady Goose among the rest upon the table takes her place,
And piping-hot bids me do my best, and bravely looks me in the face:
For pigs and geese are gallant cheer, God bless my master and dame therefore!
I trust before the next new year to eat my part of half a score.
I likewise see good minced pie here standing swaggering on the table:
The lofty walls so large and high I’ll level down if I be able;
For they be furnished with good plums, and spiced well with pepper and salt,
Every prune as big as both my thumbs to drive down bravely the juice of malt.
Fill me some more of your Christmas beer, your pepper sets my mouth on heat,
And Jack’s a-dry with your good cheer, give me some good ale to my meat.
And for the plenty of this house, God keep it thus well-stored always;
Come, butler, fill me a good carouse, and so we’ll end our Christmas Day.
New Christmas Carols, 1662

credits

from Old Christmas Returned, released March 2, 2017
Eleanor Cramer: Bass Viol
Robin Jeffrey: Lute
Alison Kinder: Tenor viol
Tamsin Lewis: Renaissance Violin
Michael Palmer: Baritone

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Passamezzo London, UK

London based early music ensemble specialising in English 16th and 17th repertoire.

Early modern music, song, ballads, theatre & dance. Viols, lute, voices, violin, recorders, harp. Christmas, Elizabethan, Tudors, Stuarts

Part of the intercultural project 'Shore to Shore', working with Moroccan Sufi musicians, Ensemble Mogador.
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