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 😊

[@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 🤮

[@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!

[@Tomule2]

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

[@living2liveagain1]

Anything that is attached to Sting is going to be EXCELLENTAAAAA

[@prawdabolidrani]

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

[@charlesfenton2063]

PP&M were my earliest memory of the song.

[@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!!!!!✝️💖🎄😊😔🎉⛄🦌🏡🎉🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎉

[@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 😊

[@ItsNewClearDammit]

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

[@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!

[@patricialaureano9217]

How could anyone not LOVE this🎄❤️

[@silvia66ism]

the best Christmas album ever

[@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)

[@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

[@terezinhamoreiradeoliveira7808]

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

[@jfredq]

Beautiful rendition of this song.

[@analisamendmentblog]

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

[@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...

[@304sg]

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

[@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.

[@irenearchos3447]

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

[@greenthumb6875]

Beautiful song towards purification of our souls.

[@TheCamerlengo7]

Absolutely wonderful performance in a most beautiful setting!

[@dianeklingman6306]

Stunning classic.

[@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!

[@bryster05]

This one goes into my annual Christmas song rotation.

[@JediDachshund]

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

[@trudinabialek]

Take me back…Beautiful song 😍

[@ABridger-s8p]

Bootiful song

[@danielchraska3329]

Krásná hudba. Neuvěřitelné.

[@nadiasimmons5403]

Loved this song so much...🙏🏾

[@krsnadasi6967]

Wow, such a haunting song!

[@catlord23]

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

[@prkoslowski]

can't stop listening to this

[@yoshiyamiwa2091]

everything is perfect and beautiful here.

[@dawnfire1]

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

[@cui_bono]

2020 brought me here.

[@acadiamary]

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

[@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

[@-DEVIL7]

Merry Christmas! Love The Coopers

[@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.

[@A0.917]

Any good thing to make us all merry❤❤❤

[@robynpeacock2107]

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

[@charlleedodson]

Performing this song for choir and it is super catchy

[@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!

[@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

[@eastwestairug3308]

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

[@НатальяРешетова-я4о]

My favorite song !!!

[@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

[@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!

[@lauradellarciprete4269]

I love this Song !!!🥰🥰🥰

[@Akella1974]

Стинг как всегда лучший :-)

[@LeeGee]

Thanks for posting

[@AlekseyKaplienko25]

you're welcome

[@NoelRayland]

God Rest ye Merry, Gentlemen.

[@acusaludpakua]

Sublime!

[@zippitydoodah5693]

Exquisite

[@bluejay6470]

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

[@neleh3234]

Hes just an such amazing artist

[@suppeople9987]

this a song for all souls day

[@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.

[@BenjaminAkiraTallamy]

Brilliant album!

[@jennyluong9014]

This song is my favorite

[@Ishbilli]

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

[@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.

[@jeanneamato8278]

Love Sting

[@tanjah7999]

liebe dieses Lied in dieser Version!

[@BooyakaBlade]

thanks a lot!

[@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.

[@trudinabialek]

Perfect 👌acoustic perfection

[@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.

[@r.d.collins9837]

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

[@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.

[@daveforshaw668]

Great interpretation

[@GONSALVESRAY]

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

[@dianelane6847]

Lovely....

[@АндрійГончарук-й1н]

Дуже гарно 👍

[@lorendaappel-eeson2265]

nice to see you doing alternative music

[@soniastan2318]

The best á capella

[@alessandrorececconi1600]

Adoro🤩

[@IvanPsoff]

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

[@suealandaluz3403]

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

[@bikebunny2005]

Incredible song this :)

[@klarakondratowicz6779]

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

[@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:

[@moniczka4020]

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

[@newplayer1414]

wow !!

[@Veronicadoeseverything]

I love this song I will never forget it

[@ericabacarin872]

Simplesmente perfect!!!

[@ВолодимирЧепурко-о8ч]

AMAZING

[@ГалинаШевелева-ъ6ю]

Ingeniously

[@LorenaPassoni]

Poesia dei suoni in espansione

[@connydragon3529]

Soul foooooood

[@rytiski]

love the coopers got me here

[@Veronicadoeseverything]

2022 this song doesn't get old!

[@musicandyceramist]

The fiddle break after the luftspause is the cat's pajamas.

[@jacksonjoan257]

If you have trouble getting the whole song outa ur head. It’s a round p: hey, ho nobody home , eat or drink or money have I none, all with this chorus.. in rounds!