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
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