Malcolm, thanks for the other verse, regardless of its questionable pedigree.


From the "Sing We Noel" liner notes:

"17th c. English"
...
"This consort song, formerly attributed to William Byrd, has no direct connection with Christmas;..."

That's all they have to say. But this is a reissue from a 1978 recording, so I don't know if the liner notes were truncated, as often happens with reissues. I ran across one or two other places where they said a similar thing regarding the Byrd attribution, but don't recall which sites, nor did they say why the revision of opinion.