Hi, Terry - the song is on Bok's Schooners CD. Everty song on the CD is a wonderful story. You can get the CD at Folk-Legacy Records, 800-836-0901; or at Bok's Website, http://www.gordonbok.com.

Sailor's Carol
Words: Charles Causley; Music & Arrangement © Gordon Bok

Lord, the snowful sky
In this pale December
Fingers my clear eye
Lest seeing I remember

Not the naked baby
Weeping in the stable
Nor the singing boys
All round my table.

Not the dizzy star
Bursting on the pane
Nor the leopard sun
Pawing the rain

Only the deep garden
Where green lillies grow
And the sailors rolling
In the sea's blue snow.

Bok's notes: Kate Barnes of Appleton, Maine, sent me this poem. After thinking about it for a couple of years I spent the corners of a winter working out this tune and arranging it for the chorus. The Quasi Modals, of course, helped me sort out the problems (we're still working on that part).