https://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/song-midis/Tarry_Wool.htm

Tarry Wool

Tarry wool, oh tarry wool
Tarry wool is ill tae spin
Card it well, oh, card it well
Card it well e'er ye begin

When it's carded, wove and spun,
Then your work is almost done
But when it's woven, dressed and cleaned,
It will be clothing for a queen

Note: Herd 1776, II.100 (with 4 more stanzas). With music in SMM I (1787)


https://carolinedavison.substack.com/p/vaughan-williamss-journey-into-folk-f9f

Vaughan Williams’s Journey into Folk: 10 August 1904 ‘Tarry Woo’’. John Mason, Dent, Yorkshire

Vaughan Williams used this tune in the English Hymnal [see also 25 December 1903 and 23 July 1904] renamed ‘Dent Dale’ after the area in which he collected it;
it was matched with the words of ‘Hark! How all the welkin rings’, also known as ‘Hark the Herald Angels Sing’.