A song when the Rump was first dissolved​/​A hue and cry after Christmas

from Old Christmas Returned by Passamezzo

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17thC Christmas ballad about the banning of Christmas, and reading of An Hue and Cry after Christmas

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A Christmas Song, when the Rump was first dissolved
This Christmas time, ‘tis fit that we should feast and sing, and merry be,
It is a time of mirth;
For never since the world began, more joyful news was brought to man
Than at our Saviour’s birth.
But such have been the times of late, that holidays are out of date,
And holiness to boot,
For they that do despise and scorn to keep the day that Christ was born
Want holiness no doubt.
The Parliament that took away the observation of that day,
We know it was not free;
For if it were, such acts as those had ne’er been seen in verse or prose,
You may conclude with me.
This tale’s now done, the Speaker’s dumb, thanks to the trumpet and the drum,
And now I hope to see
A Parliament that will restore all things that were undone before
That we may Christians be.
The Rump, 1662

Any man or woman that can give any knowledge, or tell any tidings of an old, old, very old, grey-bearded Gentleman, called Christmas, who was wont to be a very familiar guest, and visit all sorts of people, both poor and rich, for his coming. Whosoever can tell what is become of him, and he may be found, let them bring him back again into England.
An Hue and Cry after Christmas, 1646

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from Old Christmas Returned, released March 2, 2017
Eleanor Cramer - soprano
Alison Kinder - bass viol
Robin Jeffrey - lute
Michael Palmer - actor

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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. ... more

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