Balulalow - Ane sang for the birth of Christ

from Old Christmas Returned by Passamezzo

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Ane sang of the birth of Christ
I come from Heaven high to tell
the best Nowells that e’er befell.
To you their tidings true I bring,
And I will of them say and sing,
This day to you is born a child
Of Mary meek, and Virgin mild,
This blessed babe, benign and kind
Shall you rejoice both heart and mind.
Let us rejoice and be blithe,
And with the herdsmen go full swift,
And see what God of his grace hath done,
Through Christ to bring us to his throne,
My soul and life, stand up and see,
Who lies in a crib of tree,
What babe is that, so good and fair?
It is Christ, God’s son and heir.
God that made all creature,
How art thou now become so poor,
That on the hay and straw will lie,
Amongst the asses, oxen and kine?
And were the world ten times so wide,
Clad over with gold and stars of pride,
Unworthy then it were to thee
Under thy feet a stool to be.
Oh my dear heart, young Jesus sweet,
Prepare thy cradle in my sprit,
And I shall rock thee in my heart,
And never more from thee depart,
But I shall praise thee evermore,
With songs sweet unto thy gloir,
The knees of my heart shall I bow,
And sing that right Balulalow.
Alexander Wedderburn: The Gude and Godlie Ballatis, 1567

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from Old Christmas Returned, released March 2, 2017
Eleanor Cramer: Soprano
Alison Kinder: Bass viol
Richard Mackenzie: Lute

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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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