Sting - Soul Cake

[@Micky-Burns]

Just pure musical talent and no computers needed....

[@johnunderwood3132]

I never heard this song until I watched Love the Coopers. I love this song. It is now my favorite song. Thanks Sting

[@drdeeds605]

Same here 😅... I came across it when I watched Love the Coopers 🥁

[@lynneforsyth8231]

Me too

[@trudinabialek]

A brill film 👍

[@Wildlovefam]

This same 😊

[@elizabethkirkwood8178]

I discovered this song last year! Love it!

[@sbauroth]

Right there with you. Loved it the moment I heard it on Christmas night 2021

[@Blues666]

Discovered it today. Haunting!

[@prawdabolidrani]

Love this Christmas cake sooo deep...🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤

[@sondraburnham177]

Couldn't be any better a musician alive today.

[@GM-me7qj]

Never played on radio just 10,000 times Carey singing all I want for Christmas

[@BelenusValikonis]

Damn shame, innit?

[@4uRicki]

My question is why are you still listening to mainstream radio? It’s just like mainstream media, mostly propaganda and disappointing music 🤮

[@Tomule2]

I remember seeing this on TV late night during Christmas Eve, still one of the best Christmas memories vibes, wonderful concert

[@patricialaureano9217]

How could anyone not LOVE this🎄❤️

[@suzica988]

This song has a soul!!! I always cry when listening.

[@VikingGodOdinnn]

ᗰᗴ TO

[@Alanzhoure]

And a cake

[@elizabethkirkwood8178]

I discovered it last year! I love it!

[@suzannegoetz9125]

Me too!

[@living2liveagain1]

Anything that is attached to Sting is going to be EXCELLENTAAAAA

[@ItsNewClearDammit]

you can sense his love and history with this song. Beauty in sound, lyric, and posterity.

[@Deejaay83urj38]

A Winters Night: this concert, from Durham Cathedral, 09 blew my mind. Sting and his hand picked group of wonderful musicians rocked it! The brother and sister, Kathryn and Peter Tickell on the violins are special favourites of mine. Just listen to "Team Spirit". Ah the timeless music of the British Isles and Eire!

[@suzannegoetz9125]

One year ago!!!😊⛄🙏🏻🎄

[@suzannegoetz9125]

Great story 😊

[@silvia66ism]

the best Christmas album ever

[@suzannegoetz9125]

Beautiful I just heard it for the first time while watching "LOVE THE COOPERS", WONDERFUL ACTORS AND MOVIE 🎥🍿 GOD BLESS ANYONE THAT SEES THIS!!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!!!!!✝️💖🎄😊😔🎉⛄🦌🏡🎉🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎉

[@cecilmitchell8308]

i cant get this song out of my head.

[@david-og2mw]

cecil mitchell fr

[@cullenbohannon1408]

My English teacher played this just so it would be in our heads all day. Asshole!

[@ashanimates1716]

I have this song for team, I dont think ill ever get it out of my head (like that one song THAT I CANT FIND THAT LITTLE 3 YEAR OLDS DANCED TOO LAST YEAR)

[@charlesfenton2063]

PP&M were my earliest memory of the song.

[@timothyj1966]

pre-cursor to Halloween Trick or Treating & Christmas Carolling…. England gave us so many cool Ancient traditions, and Sting gives us one incredible story through song, album after album, genre after genre!

[@aoifem708]

Souling originated in ireland not england

[@chiconva]

@@aoifem708 Please tell your recipe for soul cakes?

[@timothyj1966]

@@aoifem708 Ireland, Scotland, N. England... more or less a combination of overlaying traditions going back hundreds of years...

[@nealjolly1219]

​@aoifem708 pre reformation in Ireland and Britain. Praying for the dead was abandoned after the reformation in protestant England but I suspect continued more strongly in a Catholic sympathetic Ireland. But souling was practised in the North East and Yorkshire well into the 20th century. Sting comes from the northea. I wonder if learnt this song at his grandmother's knee? He sings it here in a NE accent.

[@marioluiscmartins]

​@@aoifem708 Portugal have the Pão por Deus, Bread for God, and it's a similar tradition too...

[@analisamendmentblog]

I've been listening to this entire CD all holiday season. Love it!

[@jfredq]

Beautiful rendition of this song.

[@terezinhamoreiradeoliveira7808]

Great performances. Individual and collective . I love you STING . 😳🙌😘😄😘😄😘😄

[@headbunny1019]

Beautifully orchestrated. PP&M's stands by itself and now Sting stands alongside!!!

[@nikivicheva6541]

this song touches my heart no matter how many times i listen to it every day is cristmas

[@pancakewizard1533]

It's actually a Halloween song: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_cake

[@304sg]

Searched this today (Nov 2nd) to hear it on All Souls Day.... love this rendition by Sting

[@irenearchos3447]

such an enchanting song! love it love it! Age is no excuse for lack of virtuosity

[@jenbrown1017]

the setting couldn't be any more magical for christmas

[@doredam8919]

Jennifer Brown it's actually a halloween song

[@mr.dustinv.5463]

@@doredam8919 predates hallows Eve/Samhain. Listen to the lyrics: "one for Peter, two for Paul, three for him that made us all". It's actually the opposite of trick or treating. It's the child asking for a treat and if the household can't afford it, the child prays them a blessing. It dates to the high middle ages.

[@trudinabialek]

Take me back…Beautiful song 😍

[@nadiasimmons5403]

Loved this song so much...🙏🏾

[@dianeklingman6306]

Stunning classic.

[@ABridger-s8p]

Bootiful song

[@TheCamerlengo7]

Absolutely wonderful performance in a most beautiful setting!

[@JediDachshund]

This song is my favorite part of Christmas ever since the album came out.

[@greenthumb6875]

Beautiful song towards purification of our souls.

[@danielchraska3329]

Krásná hudba. Neuvěřitelné.

[@krsnadasi6967]

Wow, such a haunting song!

[@-DEVIL7]

Merry Christmas! Love The Coopers

[@yoshiyamiwa2091]

everything is perfect and beautiful here.

[@4hesr6kefb3y-]

A Christmas movie brought me here... this song is really good!

[@cyanpastiche9105]

Love the Coopers?

[@4hesr6kefb3y-]

Cyan Pastiche Exactly! It's cool because they use it more than once so in the end it's stuck in your head'

[@wazupuass]

me too

[@szilviavekony4851]

Mee too:)

[@latoyosatomimidoblemanoder8924]

Mads me too!

[@lauradellarciprete4269]

I love this Song !!!🥰🥰🥰

[@catlord23]

i fricking love this song my history teacher showed it to me and its been stuck in my head

[@Sandalwoodrk]

how have i not run across this before what a treat to hear sting singing this

[@cindiwalker77]

I hadn't heard it either and it's lovely . I also never heard it during the 60s listening to Peter, Paul and Mary. TH explanation of its oroigin makes sense for All Soul's Day.

[@dawnfire1]

I love this song. I play this song around this time every year

[@eastwestairug3308]

The best and spirituel, derives straight into the heart. Faisal

[@bryster05]

This one goes into my annual Christmas song rotation.

[@acadiamary]

Listening to this again as I . bake soul cakes ! Blessed be !

[@zippitydoodah5693]

Exquisite

[@A0.917]

Any good thing to make us all merry❤❤❤

[@prkoslowski]

can't stop listening to this

[@АндрійГончарук-й1н]

Дуже гарно 👍

[@deborahcepeda4219]

I wa moved by this marvelous tune and the film it stems from--no matter WHERE it came from!! Watched the film today and was ever-much more !!! and always wil!!moved towards making a comment towards a point forward---Bob Dylan and whomsoever directed,. it means a great deal to me--always will!

[@robynpeacock2107]

Hi Ninsan93 - God rest ye merry gentlemen. Too many years singing in Churches...

[@Coolarizer]

My music teacher when i was in 6th grade showed me this song 5 years later i still can't get it out of my head

[@Ishbilli]

Me too!!! love the movie and love the soudtrack!!!!

[@Akella1974]

Стинг как всегда лучший :-)

[@LeeGee]

Thanks for posting

[@AlekseyKaplienko25]

you're welcome

[@НатальяРешетова-я4о]

My favorite song !!!

[@trudinabialek]

Perfect 👌acoustic perfection

[@neleh3234]

Hes just an such amazing artist

[@tanjah7999]

liebe dieses Lied in dieser Version!

[@charlleedodson]

Performing this song for choir and it is super catchy

[@daveforshaw668]

Great interpretation

[@suppeople9987]

this a song for all souls day

[@donna30044]

Sting's is a very good solo version, but the definitive version from my (very much) younger years was the one sung by Peter, Paul & Mary. The song is a very, very old traditional children's song of the British Isles.

[@eduardoljm4104]

I completely agree!

[@jeanneamato8278]

Love Sting

[@jennyluong9014]

This song is my favorite

[@acusaludpakua]

Sublime!

[@andreeaungureanu9112]

LYRICS: A soul cake, a soul cake, Please, good missus, a soul cake, An apple, a pear, a plum or a cherry, Any good thing to make us all merry. A soul cake, a soul cake, Please, good missus, a soul cake, One for Peter, two for Paul, And three for Him that made us all. God bless the master of this house And the mistress also, And all the little children That round your table grow, The cattle in your stable, The dogs at your front door, And all that dwell within your gates We'll wish you ten times more. A soul cake, a soul cake: Go down into the cellar And see what you can find, If the barrels are not empty We'll hope that you'll be kind, We'll hope that you'll be kind With your apple and your pear, And we'll come no more a-soulin' Till Christmas time next year. A soul cake, a soul cake: The streets are very dirty, Me shoes are very thin, I have a little pocket To put a penny in, If you haven't got a penny A ha'penny will do, If you haven't got a ha'penny God bless you. A soul cake, a soul cake

[@Y-Soightnie]

I have the DVD of this concert. So many talented musicians and vocalists collaborated on this performance. The set includes a documentary on the development of this music. Makes me want to be a Geordie.

[@liviaelizabeth7347]

love the coopers brought me here

[@nikivicheva6541]

me too :)

[@sianaparks8335]

Oh my god same!!!

[@gisselesaavedra612]

+Siana Parks in what part?

[@hannaradt6797]

hahahahah me too

[@irakli20022]

ME Too :D

[@BenjaminAkiraTallamy]

Brilliant album!

[@alessandrorececconi1600]

Adoro🤩

[@bluejay6470]

love this song..the version by Peter, Paul and Mary is really good too.

[@BooyakaBlade]

thanks a lot!

[@cui_bono]

2020 brought me here.

[@NoelRayland]

God Rest ye Merry, Gentlemen.

[@Veronicadoeseverything]

I love this song I will never forget it

[@dianelane6847]

Lovely....

[@ericabacarin872]

Simplesmente perfect!!!

[@bikebunny2005]

Incredible song this :)

[@ГалинаШевелева-ъ6ю]

Ingeniously

[@ruthkennedy9496]

Love to see him singing the jolly begger man now cus he clearly understands none of the history of this song nor hardship .... I'd love to be so privileged

[@mrmicro22]

Mom a hairdresser, dad a milkman. Worked as a teacher and started a band. Your comment is inaccurate and ugly. Maybe you can do something to change your own circumstances.

[@r.d.collins9837]

Very nice, but also list to the incredible version by Peter, Paul & Mary from their 1963 album, "Moving."

[@newplayer1414]

wow !!

[@lorendaappel-eeson2265]

nice to see you doing alternative music

[@IvanPsoff]

As always, nowadays has nothing to do with what it had been all about... But Sting has made it brilliant.. as always again :)

[@soniastan2318]

The best á capella

[@ВолодимирЧепурко-о8ч]

AMAZING

[@DunechKa-Ching]

I'm muslim. And ı love this song

[@Micky-Burns]

What does being Muslim have to do with loving this song? It's universal, and 99% of humans feel the same regardless of religion.

[@DunechKa-Ching]

​@@Micky-Burns lol. I really dont know what I was thinking 5 years ago. You re right.

[@moniczka4020]

fajna piosenka i to brzmienie skrzypiec....super!

[@connydragon3529]

Soul foooooood

[@Community_AntiTikTok]

Nice song

[@RainbowEssence-c3w]

I got here from a website explaining the origins of giving out candy on Halloween and goddammit this is beautiful! I'm not even Christian! XD

[@karenvarian1174]

This song may actually pre-date Christianity. The cakes were given out to keep spirits away. It reminds me of another beautiful but eerie song; Lyke Wake Dirge.

[@suealandaluz3403]

Me encanta...pienso en una antigua aldea inglesa en donde predomina la buena voluntad...!!!!

[@GONSALVESRAY]

Three for Him that made as all..... :)

[@klarakondratowicz6779]

Dobrze jest zjeść ciastko i mieć ciastko.. Choć czy dla duszy czy nie wszystko.. za jedno..

[@MrArthur59540]

simplement génial

[@musicandyceramist]

You are correct in its origins, certainly. He may have simply carried on a 'mistake' started by Peter, Paul and Mary in the sixties. I know that I learned it as a Christmas song in the 70's here in the US, based on Peter Paul and Mary's version. I hope it did make him some money, it is a very tasteful arrangement.

[@eleneethayineka]

very nice!

[@davetcummings]

"Soul Cake" A soul cake, a soul cake, Please, good missus, a soul cake, An apple, a pear, a plum or a cherry, Any good thing to make us all merry. A soul cake, a soul cake, Please, good missus, a soul cake, One for Peter, two for Paul, And three for Him that made us all. God bless the master of this house And the mistress also, And all the little children That round your table grow; The cattle in your stable, The dogs at your front door, And all that dwell within your gates We'll wish you ten times more. A soul cake, a soul cake: Go down into the cellar And see what you can fi nd; If the barrels are not empty We'll hope that you'll be kind; We'll hope that you'll be kind With your apple and your pear, And we'll come no more a-soulin' Till Christmas time next year. A soul cake, a soul cake: The streets are very dirty, Me shoes are very thin, I have a little pocket To put a penny in; If you haven't got a penny A ha'penny will do; If you haven't got a ha'penny God bless you. A soul cake, a soul cake:

[@Veronicadoeseverything]

2022 this song doesn't get old!

[@LorenaPassoni]

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