Easter carols...?

Subject: Easter carols...?
From: GUEST,BlackAcornUK
Date: 12 Apr 20 - 01:57 PM

A bit late in the day, but what are your favourite *Easter* carols (ie at the intersection of the demotic and the sacred, rather than hymns from the church tradition)?

The Valley Folk's 'All Bells in Paradise' has a couple that it categorises as being of this season, 'O Mary Mother, Come and See' and 'Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day' (more familiar to most as a Christmas carol, I think, thankfully usually with the somewhat anti-Semitic 6th verse removed);

However, to me, the ark of '[The Seven] Joys of Mary' places it in the Easter bracket, too:

https://youtu.be/DfmTAg87XLQ

As well as Easter songs that offer a folkloric take on Bible lore, what other folk songs are synonymous with the time of year?

Two obvious ones are 'The Week Before Easter'(here's the Robin and Barry Dransfield version):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuQVJzy06Fk

...And the Heysham Pace Egging Song (sharing the Watersons version from 'Frost and Fire' which is most familiar to me, but also the Emma Vickers version, collected in Burscough, between Wigan and Southport):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9o3a6y3fbc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1G47XejcB4

Subject: RE: Easter carols...?
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 02 Apr 23 - 03:26 PM

A song I have always thought of as an Easter Carol
was recorded, more than once I believe,
by the late lamented KyTrad, Jean Ritchie.

It is variously called
Down Came an Angel
or Christ was Born in Bethlehem.

It concludes on Easter with
Christ appearing to Mary Magdalene and directing her
to "tell your brethren, he's risen from the dead."

Subject: RE: Easter carols...?
From: Mo the caller
Date: 05 Apr 23 - 07:13 AM

We 3 kings
A lot of the older Christmas carols tell the whole story, just as in paintings a beam of the stable casts a shadow of a cross.

Subject: RE: Easter carols...?
From: GUEST,Mike Yates
Date: 05 Apr 23 - 10:55 AM

How about 'The Leaves of Life', also known as 'The Seven Virgins' (Roud 127) which has the verse:

Go you down, go you down to yonder little town
As far as you can see
And it's there you will find sweet Jesus Christ
With his body nailed to a tree