sorry abut the bogus posts- hit the wrong key Just found this - a Barleycorn/ Jesus combination Words and Music: English Traditional, Before 1536 Source: Edith Rickert, Ancient English Christmas Carols: 1400-1700 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1914), p. 186. 1. On Christes day, I understand, An ear of wheat of a maid sprang, Thirty winters on earth to stand, To make us bread, all to His pay.1 A blessed bird, as I you say, That died and rose on Good Friday. 2. This corn was reapen and laid to ground, Full sore beaten and faste bound Unto a pillar with cordes round, At His finger's ends the blood ran out that day. A blessed bird, as I you say, That died and rose on Good Friday. 3. This corn was reapen with great envy Upon the Mount of Calvary; Token He shoed on Shere-Thursday, Maundy He gave to His disciples there. A blessed bird, as I you say, That died and rose on Good Friday. 4. Jesu upon His body the Cross bare; Water and blood came from Him there; This corn was scourged all in fere; Till it waxed blood-red. A blessed bird, as I you say, That died and rose on Good Friday. 5. A crowne of thorns set on His head, And He was done on the Rood, And beaten till His body was bloody-red; Thus they beat Jesu, our debt to pay. A blessed bird, as I you say, That died and rose on Good Friday.
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