DOWN IN YON FORREST

the refrain lines are:
sing may, queen may, sing mary
sing all good men for the newborn baby


verses:
down in yon forest be a hall
'tis coverlidded over with purple and pall

and in that hall is a pallet bed
'tis stained with blood a scarlet red

and by that bed there lies a stone
on which the virgin did atone

and under that hall is a gushing flood
from christ's own side hit's water and blood

and by that bed a shrub tree grows
since he was born hit blooms and blows

and on that bed a young squire sleeps
his wounds are sick, and see, he weeps

o hail yon hall where none can sin
'cause hit's gold outside and silver within

indeed collected and arranged by John Jacob Niles, and
the copyright (1935) must therefore refer to the arrangement. the tune is
quite different from the corpus christi carol...
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