2. A carol, not usually sung at Christmas, involves a bridge of sunbeams and a beating. Where did it come from and where did the story originate?The Bitter Withy, where the young Jesus, fed up with being hassled by some local 'gentlemen's sons' plays a trick on them. He suffers for it later, though, when the BVM gives him a damned good thrashing. The Watersons used to sing a version of this, I recall.