Coventry Carol, Original Version of 1591

[@natewilkinson6887]

Greatest song ever. Christmas song for sure but the sad part of it. The melody is hauntingly beautiful. I miss Christmas carols like these

[@sirken2]

Sang this in high school im 32 now still remember my part some songs never leave you

[@knighttoking7926]

As a Freshman, we learned this and more importantly the meaning of it. It is a durge at its heart. My best memory of high school is that of singing this in choir class and then, when perfected, performed in public at an historical building while standing on the grand staircase. The lucky people who happened to be present, were in awe. The sound in that building was totally awesome. God was with us. And the people who were rivited, listening to our angelic voices, broke out in gleeful applause! I got major goose bumps and still do at the memory! It was the best ever. I pray Father God will allow me to sing in His Heavenly choir for eternity!! We, our voices , are made to sing the praise of our wise Creator and our selfless REDEEMER!!! JESUS DIED FOR ME! FOR YOU TOO!!

[@brineted1010]

A dirge ( do you mean )

[@capoeirastronaut]

I've heard it said arts do more for people's contact with what's holy than books.

[@Romalvx]

And then He rose again

[@ItIsYourMom]

Lovely post. thank you for sharing your special experience performing this beautiful piece. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.❤🙏

[@AlexandrePorto]

Your feelings are genuine, however not a proof of the supernatural. They just are what they are: feelings.

[@stevendouglascarr5517]

Have always liked the dark beauty of this song. I can't listen to this as background. I have to stop what I'm doing and take it in slowly. I've listened to it all my life and every time is like fhe first time...

[@crowned_moth]

Can you give lyrics

[@em4151]

@@crowned_moth Lully, lullah, thou little tiny child, Bye bye, lully, lullay. Thou little tiny child, Bye bye, lully, lullay. O sisters too, how may we do For to preserve this day This poor youngling for whom we sing, "Bye bye, lully, lullay"? Herod the king, in his raging, Chargèd he hath this day His men of might in his own sight All young children to slay. That woe is me, poor child, for thee And ever mourn and may For thy parting neither say nor sing, "Bye bye, lully, lullay."

[@billblankemeier9229]

Best Christmas song ever! Too bad it's not a 2-hour song. Can listen to this over and over again

[@latashastrahan4297]

😂 I agree

[@MikeyMonahan-h2t]

fantastic

[@Deedee-ee1sg]

My most favourite carol! This is the version I remember singing in the school choir. I love it!

[@knighttoking7926]

Yes, yes, me too! It was awesome!

[@prouddaughterpublishing]

Mine too! Play it again, Sam!

[@valgarner1112]

Always loved this as a child. First heard it by St Paul's Cathedral choir. Beautiful and haunting.

[@markherden4660]

I first heard this on a Manheim steamroller Christmas CD back in the 90s and I fell in love with it. It's my favorite song to play on acoustic guitar to this day. The minor chords with that haunting beauty just hits the musical spot in my brain man

[@DoraHemingway]

This was sung in the snow, in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral, days after it was bombed by the Luftwaffe. Incredibly poignant. You can find a video of it on here.

[@christopherkuechmann9774]

Thanks for sharing this story. How poignant your story is. I had the great fortune to see the new Coventry Cathedral on a visit to Europe following my junior year in high school in the summer of 1967.

[@joeydeacon1]

An amazing Christmas ensemble to hear, please it would be great to hear a repeat next year x

[@normagordon5398]

Beautiful version

[@notanotherjamesmurphy5574]

it’s interesting to hear that minor chord change to a major chord

[@davidpickell4227]

Tierce de picardie. A convention of the times

[@julistarling8382]

What Lisa Black said. And also, what the writer Lucy Boston said about "four hundred years ago, a baby went to sleep". This is beautiful. Hauntingly beautiful. I mean that almost literally. Magical. Beautiful. Haunting. Eerie. Thank you for posting.

[@ruperteachells2355]

Absolutely Beautiful, thank you 🙏 🙏!!!

[@lisablack8391]

🙌🙏Heavenly! Ancient, Solemn, holy , beautiful!❤

[@Anglynn74]

I have a christmas playlist here on you tube in chronological order & this is exactly what I was looking for, the 1591 version. Ty for sharing! if I could find a video with a group singing this in period clothing would be perfect too.

[@KittyStarlight]

It's on my Christmas playlist too but mine's not in chronological order. (Just whatever order.) Good idea about the chronological order thing. ☺️ Good post too. ☺️ Thank you for posting.

[@KittyStarlight]

The period clothing would indeed also be nice. 👗🌹👗 (I second that motion. ☺️)

[@KittyStarlight]

I know that's not right for the period. (The blue emoji dress.) 👗 Looks cute anyway, says I. ☺️

[@chadhemingway3335]

It's a classic piece, and one of Christmas' most beautiful.

[@tubalcain1039]

I feel it in my bones.

[@robertriley3407]

I play it on classical guitar,such a beautiful song.

[@IsaacAsimov1992]

No musical accompaniment. Sublimely beautiful as is.

[@Jabberstax]

I love this hymn ❤

[@pollyrock6261]

My favourite carol. So sad and beautiful

[@juliaaufderheide2744]

Goosebumps

[@RodolfoAmbriz]

I came from the evolution of Christmas music.

[@henboker3]

@natewilkin: I agree. I'm listen in the midst of a storm in Utah, Jan. 3, and the hymn takes me back to the end of Elizabethan England.

[@accousticdecay]

I had to get old appreciate this poignant hymn and the atrocity that we celebrate on December 28.

[@RockDove5212]

We observe it, rather than celebrate it. Jewish leader ordering the murder of hundreds and thousands of infants....not much changes

[@robertmoir5695]

Excellent performance

[@julianarew7298]

Lovely

[@XX-gy7ue]

CHRISTMAS tears !

[@acharyajamesoermannspeaker6563]

Good.

[@simonsezpoyo]

Wow, the cameras in 1591 were great

[@angelamichellepittser373]

Does anyone have lyrics please?!

[@Dermacrosis]

Modern spelling: Lully, lullah, thou little tiny child, Bye bye, lully, lullay. Thou little tiny child, Bye bye, lully, lullay. O sisters too, how may we do For to preserve this day This poor youngling for whom we sing, "Bye bye, lully, lullay"? Herod the king, in his raging, Chargèd he hath this day His men of might in his own sight All young children to slay. That woe is me, poor child, for thee And ever mourn and may For thy parting neither say nor sing, "Bye bye, lully, lullay.

[@SuperBartles]

could the gentleman next to the microphone cough a bit louder please, because I don’t think he’s coughing quite LOUD enough yet...

[@BennyLlama39]

It's like I tell the idiots at work-- if you're gonna die of tuberculosis, have the decency to take that $#!t outside.

[@markcarter3617]

No discord ?

[@andrewb8698]

Where is the F/F#?

[@esperanzavence7288]

I thought it was Amin/ maj?

[@ryanstory1642]

This is not the original. You have left out the false relation, the most distinct feature of the original composition.

[@MikeMatzke]

Have you found the best youtube version yet? I heard it on KUSC this morning, the same version my mother played on her record player.

[@jeffreyeggstein329]

@cran brisbane Merry Christmas, today He is born. The original comes from the 1300s so this isn't it. still the best one on yt imo.

[@chook5143]

@@MikeMatzke kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZusiqyGhNR4mZo This one is my favorite. It appears to have the false relation Ryan mentions.

[@SuperBartles]

yes, when it said original I thought it would include that (though it sounds so bloody awful I think they should limit it to just one verse, to keep the purists happy)

[@jamesgardner5082]

@@SuperBartlesAh false relations are beautiful. Acquired taste but def should be in every verse imo.

[@MarciaMatthews]

Dedicated to the children and teachers of Sandy Hook. 💔🙏🏽💌💕

[@notanotherjamesmurphy5574]

0:36

[@jakecavendish3470]

Not wild about the tune tbh but great harmony

[@54321Judith]

Stop messing with the timing will ya!

[@devilsephiroth9000]

It's the old world version

[@jimvanlieshout7657]

10/08/2023

[@paulpfannenstiel6409]

Christmas Carol that is not actually about Jesus

[@Dietconsulting]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Carol The killing of the children. A price paid for the birth of a king

[@juliannewiley4356]

But it is really, because they were the first Martyrs, little babies killed by the evil King Herod "In Odium Christi" -- in hatred of Christ. Feast Day December 28.

[@richardbradshaw696]

Well in it's original context it is very much about Christmas, as in the Middle Ages and Renaissance they didn't just do the cute baby part of the Christmas story. This tells the story of the Massacre of the Innocents from the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 2, and is from a Mystery Play performed in Coventry. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Carol)

[@devilsephiroth9000]

​@@juliannewiley4356Christmas, a holiday in celebration of Odin, renamed for Christ Jesus. (Santa Claus, old man winter, Jack Frost are all characters of Odin)

[@immaggiethesenilegoldenret7918]

@@DietconsultingThe Feast of the Holy Innocents, 12/28. A gut-wrenching occasion.

[@erm...whattheflip]

I mean its pretty but you cant hear them like at all