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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: GUEST,mg Date: 16 Oct 12 - 04:12 PM That is the one all right Haruo..but I thought it was by a famous composer in some Mass for B Minor or something...it is very beautiful. I am fond of a new to me song by George Millar of Irish Rovers..Bells over Belfast... |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Haruo Date: 16 Oct 12 - 03:18 PM "(Words can be provided) and" - please do, Murpholly! |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: open mike Date: 16 Oct 12 - 02:52 PM from some of my december radio shows: Mary Chapin Carpenter Hot Buttered Rum 12 Songs of Christmas Zoe Records http://www.marychapincarpenter.com/ CHRISTMAS JUG BAD BOOGIE WOOGIE SANTA UNCORKED GLOBE WWW.CHRISTMASJUGBAND.COM HAYBURNERS YOUR WINTER WEATHER HUDSON-HARDING SAMPLER Http://www.hudsonharding.com/ HAYBURNERS HOME WITH YOU EPONYMOUS WWW.thehayburners.com DENISE J. FINDLEY SOLSTICE SONG HUDSON-HARDING SAMPLER Http://www.hudsonharding.com/ DAVID BOWIE/BING CROSBY PEACE ON EARTH/LITTLE DRUMMER BOY CHERYL BRANZ SKATING CHRISTMAS GIFT TOM POSADA-RAO www.cherylbranz.com KATE CAMPBELL DEAR LITTLE STRANGER MY 2006 CROSSROADS SHOW RECORDING http://www.katecampbell.com/ WILLIE NELSON EL NIN~O He Is Born " " " " " http://www.willienelson.com/ REB FIRMAN ON MY WAY " " " " " http://cdbaby.com/cd/rebb JACKSON BROWNE REBEL JESUS " " " " " http://www.jacksonbrowne.com/ STEPHANIE DAVIS HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS " " " " " WWW. STEPHANIEDAVIS.COM CELTIC ELVIS KILL A TREE FOR CHRIST " " " " " http://www.wildplum.org/celticelvis/ COWBOY CHRISTMAS WESTERN FOLK LIFE CENTER " " " " " PETE MOAK SANTA CLAUS FIELD RECORDING OF COWBOY POETS BY LAUREL THE BOBS 50 KILOWATT TREE MY 2006 CROSSROADS SHOW RECORDING ttp://www.bobs.com MANHEIM STEAMROLLER DECK THE HALLS FRESH AIRE CHIP DAVIS " " HARK x 2 FRESH AIRE CHIP DAVIS http://shop.mannheimsteamroller.com/ JOHN GORKA CHRISTMAS BELLS-LONG FELLOW MY 2006 CROSSROADS SHOW RECORDING WWW.johngorka.com SMOKY MOUNTAIN CHRISTMAS OVER THE RIVER AND THRU THE WOODS INSTRU. RALPH STANLEY CHRISTMAS TIME IS NEAR A VERY SPECIAL ACOUSTIC CHRISTMAS www.drralphstanley.com http://www.amazon.com/Very-Special-Acoustic-Christmas/dp/B0000CAV4C KENNY ROGERS (?) MARY DID YOU KNOW MY 2006 CROSSROADS SHOW RECORDING http://kennyrogers.musiccitynetworks.com/ LAUREL READING FROM FARMER'S ALMANACS MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER LONGEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR 12 SONGS OF CHRISTMAS http://www.marychapincarpenter.com/ CHRISTMAS WITH THE CHILDREN DECK THE HALLS " " " " " THE HILLS OF BETHLEHEM ARE BARE " " " " " CHRISTMAS MUSIC BOX SANTA CLAUSE IS COMIN' TO TOWN " " " " " Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum / If We Make It Thru December / Winter's Grace / Spruce & Maple Music http://www.laurielewis.com Bryan Bowers / Hard Times / For You / Flying Fish / http://www.bryanbowers.com Laurie Lewis and Tom Rozum / The Gift / Winter's Grace / S & MM / see above Jean Ritchie / Bird in a Cage / Clear Waters Remembered / Greenhays Records http://www.jeanritchiehome.com/ Laurie L. and Tom R. / Hot Buttered Rum / Winter's Grace / S & MM / see above Penman Family / Feed The Children / Penman's Home Made Jam / SELF, New Zealand L.L. & T.R. / Winter's Grace / Title Song / S & M M / see above Connie Kaldor and BIM / Cowboy Christmas / New Songs for an Old Celebration / http://www.conniekaldor.com/ Vancouver Folk Music Festival's Aural Tradition Records Wylie Gustafson / Christmas for Cowboys / Title song / Two Medicine Music http://www.wylieww.com/ Connie Kaldor and BIM / We're Gonna Sing / New Songs for an Old Celebration / see above Christmas Jug Band / Carolin' / Holiday Highways / Globe Rec ords / www.christmasjugband.com/ Dar Williams / Christians and Pagans / What Do You Hear / Razor & Tie / www.darwilliams.com/ Robert Earl Keen / Christmas from the Family / The Party Never Ends /www.robertearlkeen.com/ Loudon Wainwright III / Christmas Morning / Social Studies / http://www.lwiii.com/ Janet Bates / He Was Born / Little Spinner / SELF / http://www.janetbates.com/ New World / Cowboy Carol / by Cecil Broadhurst / from You Tube Glory of the Story / Miracle of the Wheat / Ed McGurdy / 1958 / from internet Seamus Kennedy / Miss fogarty's Cake / Goodwill to Men / Gransha / http://www.mcnote.com/seamus/ Jackson Browne / Rebel Jesus / with the Chieftans / http://www.jacksonbrowne.com/ Bryndle / Corn, Water, Wood / by Carol Elliot and Wendy Waldman /http://www.bryndle.com/ Myra Hess / Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring / Bach for Christmas / Tomato Sampler / Tomato Records Misty River / Bleak Mid-Winter / Midwinter Songs / MRCD / http://www.mistyriverband.com/ Terry Allen / X-Mas on the Isthmus / Salivation / Sugar Hill / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Allen_%28country_singer%29 Gretchen Peters / Careful How You Go / Northern Lights / Scarlet Letter Records http://www.gretchenpeters.com/ Willie Nelson / He Is Born / El Nin~o / http://willienelson.com/ Byrd and Street / Hope in Every Heart / Ain't no Merry / Self / http://www.byrdandstreet.com/ Mara Levine / Raise the Dead of Midwinter / Mara's Gems/ www.myspace.com/maralevine Seamus Kennedy/Mary's Boy Child, Christmas Cake/Goodwill To Men Gransha Records Ken Webb / Skating / Christmas Pony Wil Maring / Hometown Christmas, Bucky's Present / http://www.wilmaring.com/ April Verch / Christmas in the Valley / http://www.aprilverch.com/ Laurie Lewis / The Bear Song / Earth & Sky / Rounder/ www.laurielewis.com Wylie & the Wild West /Christmas for Cowboys, In The Bleak Mid Winter /Cowboy Christmas /Two Medicine Music/www.wylieww.com Tommy Byrd, Kathy Street / Ain't No Merry in Christmas / www.byrdandstreet.com Penman's Homemade Jam / Feed the Children /Summer 2008 / self Dar Williams / the Christians and the Pagans / Mortal City / Razor and Tie Records / www.darwilliams.com Christmas Jug Band / This Christmas Night / On The Holiday Highway /Globe/ www.christmasjugband.com Gretchen Peters / Northern Lights / title / Scarlet Letter Records / www.gretchenpeters.com Terry Allen / xmas on the isthmus / Salivation / Sugar Hill / http://www.terryallenartmusic.com/ Misty River / All That I Want , Peace /Midwinter / www.mistyriverband.com Alicia McGovern / The Holly and All/ Words Through the Seasons / www.aliciamcGovernmusic.com Loudon Wainwright III / Christmas Morning/ Social Studies/Hannibal http://www.lw3.com Readings from several Almanacs….about Solstice, lunar eclipse and meteor showers all coming up Dec. 20-21-22 Robert Earl Keen / Merry Christmas from the Family / The Party Never Ends / Sugar Hill www.robertearlkeen.com/ |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Haruo Date: 16 Oct 12 - 01:52 PM I'm surprised nobody has mentioned "Rise up, shepherd, and foll[er/ow]" or "Children, go where I send thee". |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Haruo Date: 16 Oct 12 - 01:46 PM And here's a live link for those saddened by the disappearance of Geocities, taking with it Santa Claus is coming to town in Tlingit. |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Haruo Date: 16 Oct 12 - 01:38 PM I really like "Chariots" |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Haruo Date: 16 Oct 12 - 01:06 PM That final "as a" is a relic of absent-minded cutting and pasting. Joe, feel free to edit and remove it and this post. |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Haruo Date: 16 Oct 12 - 01:05 PM Mary Garvey's first suggestion ("Mariam et Joseph et infantem positum in precipio") I was not familiar with. I wonder if it is the same as the one mentioned in this article in the Dutch Wikipedia (also in German and Italian, but not in English or Esperanto): Transeamus usque Bethlehem? (Note the correct spelling of "praesepio", ablative of "manger", if googling.) Transeamus usque Bethlehem et videamus hoc verbum quod factum est. Mariam et Joseph et Infantem positum in praesepio. Transeamus, audiamus multitudinem militiae coelestis laudantium Deum, Mariam et Joseph et Infantem positum in praesepio. Gloria, Gloria in Excelsis Deo. Gloria, Gloria et in terra pax hominibus. Bonae voluntatis, et in terra pax. Transeamus et videamus quod factum est. The version in the German Wikipedia prefixes a recitative Nolite timere:to the text, and gives Gloria in excelsis Deo,as a choral refrain between the two stanzas beginning with "Transeamus". Here is a text from CPDL.org: Transeamus usque Bethlehem, which ascribes the work to Schnabel; my impression is the Wikipedia consensus is that it is an anonymous, traditional Silesian song which Schnabel simply transcribed (and then gussied up for choral performance). Mary, is this the text you're thinking of? as a |
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Subject: Lyr Add: ADESTE FIDELES From: Haruo Date: 16 Oct 12 - 12:30 PM I see Mary Garvey gave some of the verses of Adeste Fideles (the ones most likely to be found in a Catholic hymnal) in Latin. There are others. Here are the seven Latin verses I am familiar with. Usually you either get the first verse plus two or three of verses 2 through 4, or else you get the first verse plus two or three of verses 5 through 7. Seems to me that the second approach is more appropriate to the "carol" application, or for a setting with a crèche, while the first approach is more appropriate to the "hymn" application, as it is more concerned with praise and theology than with wise men and shepherds. 1. Adeste fideles, læti, triumphantes, (W) Venite, venite in Bethlehem. Natum videte Regem angelorum. Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus, Dominum. 2. Deum de Deo, Lumen de Lumine, (W) Gestant puellae viscera, Deum verum, Genitum non factum. Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus, Dominum. 3. Cantet nunc "Io!" chorus angelorum; (W) Cantet nunc aula caelestium: "Gloria in excelsis Deo!" Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus, Dominum. 4. Ergo qui natus Die hodierna, (W) Jesu tibi sit gloria! Patris aeterni Verbum caro factum. Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus, Dominum. 5. En grege relicto, humiles ad cunas (B) Vocati pastores appropriant; Et nos ovanti gradu festinemus; Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus, Dominum. 6. Stella duce, Magi, Christum adorantes, (A) Aurum, thus et myrrham dant munera. Jesu infanti corda praebeamus; Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus, Dominum. 7. Pro nobis erenum et foeno cubantem, (B) Piis foveamus amplexibus. Sic nos amantem quis non redamaret? Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus, Dominum. The letters in parentheses after the first lines indicate the probable authorship of each stanza. (W) means John Francis Wade (1711-1786), ĉ. 1743, who is now widely accepted by scholars as the author and composer of the song. These are the same stanzas that other traditions have ascribed to a variety of others, including (as mentioned in this thread) King John IV of Portugal and John Reading or Redding. (B) means the Frenchman Abbé E. Jean François de Borderies (1764-1832). (A) means Anonymous, I haven't seen an attribution. |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Chris Green Date: 16 Oct 12 - 07:31 AM My two personal faves are Veni Emmanuel and Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day. Both of which can be heard in glorious three-part harmony on (mostly) authentic instruments as part of Blast from the Past's Christmas show which will be touring England and Wales this December! |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: GUEST,Peter from Mc2 Date: 15 Oct 12 - 05:19 PM 'Miracles' by the Suffolk based singer/songwriter Paul McCartney of Mc2 fame - but then I am biased! |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Haruo Date: 15 Oct 12 - 04:58 PM Ebor Fiddler wrote Practically any tune to "Shepherds": I'm even partial to "Winchester Old".And I'm sitting here trying to sing "Shepherds, rejoice! lift up your eyes" to WINCHESTER OLD and it's not working so well. Wait... |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Murpholly Date: 13 Oct 12 - 10:26 AM Carol carol gaily, carol on our way Go sound the gospel trumpet that once o'er Judah's plain Christmas Bells are ringing, ringing o'er the world triumphantly (Words can be provided) and Hail Smiling Morn |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: banjoman Date: 13 Oct 12 - 06:43 AM Centre of the Ages (The Christmas song) is a great one which we sing every Christmas. I can give the words if needed |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: GUEST Date: 12 Oct 12 - 05:04 PM Hey! Without realising it, it seems that for the first time ever, I have made the magic 100!!!!!! Eddie |
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Subject: Lyr Add: STANDING IN THE RAIN (Sydney Carter) From: GUEST Date: 12 Oct 12 - 04:43 PM My favourite by a long way: STANDING IN THE RAIN (Sydney Carter)
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Myrtle's cook Date: 12 Oct 12 - 08:35 AM Christmas 1914 - Mike Harding http://www.mikeharding.co.uk/books/poetry/poems/christmas-1914 A moment of hope and humanity amidst conflict - masterfully captured in song by Mike harding. |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: John P Date: 11 Oct 12 - 10:16 PM Come Mad Boys, Be Glad Boys The Woodcutters Song Chrisimis Day |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 11 Oct 12 - 08:34 PM I left out the "de" in the last line of "Duérmete." (I make a correction to the song and then make a mistake myself. Par for my course). |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Artful Codger Date: 11 Oct 12 - 04:28 PM The versions I've found of "Duérmete" all have the last line as: y ahi nadie te ha de ofender |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Georgiansilver Date: 11 Oct 12 - 04:20 PM How about a bit of this at Christmas?? |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: GUEST,Ebor_Fiddler Date: 11 Oct 12 - 04:05 PM Practically any tune to "Shepherds": I'm even partial to "Winchester Old". |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: GUEST,old git Date: 11 Oct 12 - 03:48 PM Bill Meek and John Conolly's "I am Christmas" |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Elmore Date: 11 Oct 12 - 03:41 PM Straw Against the Wind by Bob Franke |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 11 Oct 12 - 02:45 PM A La Ru (Duérmete, Niño Lindo) Missing word in verse 2, as posted by Haruo- madre. line 3: en los brazos de tu madre y ahi nadie te ha ofender This cradle song is extracted from Los Pastores, a version collected by J. D. Robb in Albuquerque, NM. |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: AggieD Date: 14 Dec 04 - 08:27 AM Oops that was me cookieless, & the blickie went wrong. Try again: Salutation Carol |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: GUEST Date: 14 Dec 04 - 08:22 AM Just finished singing a great 'Christmas Celebration' with our choir, which included "I Wonder as I Wander", which John Jacob Niles attributes to his own writing, but no-one knows if he just up & stole the credit, or whether it is one that was traditional to the Appalachians. It is very lovely though. Also great to sing was the 15thC " Salutation Carol" here http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/salutation_carol.htm |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: jaze Date: 14 Dec 04 - 07:50 AM Cherry Tree Carol by Judy Collins |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Mary Humphreys Date: 13 Dec 04 - 04:28 PM The tune is Welsh - 'Nos galan', which means 'New Year's eve.' Older than the English words, certainly. I think there has been another thread on this very recently. |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: PoppaGator Date: 13 Dec 04 - 02:38 PM Ha! Sure fooled me! Is there any chance that the tune is at all "ancient," or that the song as a whole (lyrics/music) was somehow adapted from anything with a longer history? I wouldn't have thought there would have been a "market" (any demand at all) for a pointedly non-Christian holiday carol anywhere in the English-speaking world in the late nineteenth century. I'm not aware of any neo-pagan movement (like today's) during that era. |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: MMario Date: 13 Dec 04 - 02:31 PM PappaGator - "Deck the halls" was written in the late 1800's - (the lyrics that is) |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: PoppaGator Date: 13 Dec 04 - 02:20 PM I really like "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," one of the few minor-key Christmas carols. ("O Come O Come Emmanual" is also minor, and a lovely tune, but strictly speaking it's an Advent hymn rather than a celebration of Christmas.) I'm also very partial to "Deck the Halls," the only familar/classic carol I can think of that includes neither religious references nor any modern-secular stuff about Santa, etc. When I sing it, I feel like I am indeed "trolling" the one and only surviving "ancient Yuletide carol." Among the religious standards, "Oh Holy Night," "Joy to the World," and "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" are among my favorites, and I, too, miss the good old Latin "Adeste Fidelis." As a choral performance -- not something I'd try to sing myself -- there's nothing quite like "Carol of the Bells." |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: GUEST,jade wilson Date: 13 Dec 04 - 01:25 PM my favorite christmas songs are were are you christmas, as long as thers christmas, it feels like christmas, little drummer boy, rocking around the christmas tree, 12th day of christmas, i wish it could be christmas everyday, are you hanging up your stocking on the wall, winter wonderland, jingel bell rock |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: GUEST,Harmoni Date: 06 Dec 04 - 01:48 AM Forgot this one: Go Tell It On The Mountain |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: GUEST,Harmoni Date: 06 Dec 04 - 01:46 AM The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) So This Is Christmas (John Lennon)\ Mary's Boy Child Jesus Christ (not sure that's the title, but it's sung by Boney M) In The Bleak Mid-Winter Christmas In The Trenches My Grown-Up Christmas List |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Margret RoadKnight Date: 05 Dec 04 - 10:20 PM "Red and Green Christnmas" by Nadia Cattouse and that Jewish Xmas lullaby "Sweetest Dreams Be Thine" |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Dave Earl Date: 05 Dec 04 - 11:17 AM "Shepherds Arise" As sung by the Copper family carries my vote. Dave |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: GUEST Date: 05 Dec 04 - 04:14 AM "Hey Santa, where's me f^*&ing bike", by the Aussie Kevin "Bloody" Wilson. Cheers Owlkat |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Jean Johnson Date: 04 Dec 04 - 04:26 AM Boar's head carol Ditchling carol Shepherds arise God rest ye merry gentlemen The Coventry carol |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Genie Date: 04 Dec 04 - 04:07 AM I love the "Virgin Mary" song recorded by Carolyn Hester. |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: GUEST,JohnB Date: 13 Dec 02 - 12:17 PM This years favourite is "Noel and Noel" plus a whole bunch of the Yorkshire Pub Carols. Pentonville and Shepherds Arise to name a couple. JohnB |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: GUEST,jaze Date: 13 Dec 02 - 11:55 AM Do Simon and Garfunkle have a Christmas album that I don't know about? There are at least 2 Christmas songs by them mentioned above. What lp are they from? |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: TIA Date: 13 Dec 02 - 11:39 AM Adam lay y-bounden is beautiful. I've never figured out a sensible key signature for it. It seems to change several times. I just pretend it's open and everything is an accidental. |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: My guru always said Date: 13 Dec 02 - 11:07 AM Not Folk I know: Adam lay ye bounden The shepherd's cradle song Adeste Fideles (wonderful!) Health & Happiness to all :-) |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: coco Date: 13 Dec 02 - 04:06 AM Away in manger o come all ye faithfull silent night jingle bells |
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Subject: Lyr Add: NOËL EST ARRIVÉ (French carol) From: GUEST,ClaireBear (new guest) Date: 12 Dec 02 - 05:29 PM Here's one that may appeal to those who have a thing for obscure medieval French (from Provence) folk carols that have a quirky, Second Shepherds' Play feeling to them. My early French isn't good enough to translate it for you, but I believe the chorus translates roughly to "My leg hurts -- saddle my horse for me." It's about a shepherd who's too fat and too hypochondriacal about drafts to go see the new baby. That should give you the basic idea. Here 'tis: NOËL EST ARRIVÉ (la jambe me fait mal) Y'a tant de gens Qui font pèlerinage Y'a tant de gens Qui vont à Bethléem, Moi, d'y aller, J'aurais bien le courage, Moi d'y aller, Si je pouvais marcher ! Refrain : La jambe me fait mal, Boute-selle, boute-selle, La jambe me fait mal, Boute-selle à mon cheval ! Tous les bergers, Campés dans la montagne, Tous les bergers, Ont vu le messager, Qui a crié: " Mettez vous en campagne," Qui a crié : " Le fils de Dieu est né ! " Pour ma santé, Les fièvres sont malsaines, Pour ma santé, Mieux vaut les éviter, J'ai attrapé Une fièvre quartaine, J'ai attrapé Que j'en reste éclopé. Les gens à pied Me laissent en arrière, Les gens à pied Me laissent le dernier. Un malotru A ri de mes manières, Un malotru Tout lourd et tout ventru ! Mon cheval blanc Qui passe ventre à terre, Mon cheval blanc Me mènera devant L'ai acheté D'un qui venait de guerre, L'ai acheté Moins cher qu'il n'a coûté. Quand j'aurai vu Le Fils du Dieu le Père, Quand j'aurai vu Le Roi du ciel venu, M'en revenant De saluer sa Mère, M'en revenant Tout sera différent. Refrain final : Je n'aurai plus de mal, Boute-selle, boute-selle, Je n'aurai plus de mal, Boute-selle à mon cheval ! You can find Midi and these words at this site: La Jambe Me Fait Mal (here's the address in case my blue clicky doesn't work) http://perso.club-internet.fr/bmarcore/noel/N131.html I learned it from Malicorne's "Almanach" years ago, but that version only has three verses and leaves out the most interesting ones. Tune's basically the same as above, but marvelously harmonized and with a couple of embellishments that make the CD worth tracking down if you like that sort of thing. Here are the Malicorne words: Tous les bergers étant sur la montagne Tous les bergers ont vu un messager Qui leur a dit mettez-vous en campagne Qui leur a dit Noël est arrivé La jambe me fait mal Boutte sel, boutte sel La jambe me fait mal Boutte sel à mon cheval Un gros berger, qui fait seul le voyage Un gros berger s'en va à petits pas S'est retourné au bruit de mes paroles Je lui ai dit "Noël est arrivé" Réveillez-vous, mettez-vous en fenêtre Réveillez-vous, sortez de vos maisons Venez tous voir, l'enfant qui vient de naître Réveillez-vous, Noël est arrivé Happy Christmas! Claire |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: TIA Date: 11 Dec 02 - 10:40 PM "I Wonder as I Wander" is not only a haunting tune, but true blue folk/trad. -- "discovered" in the 20's or 30's in southern Appalachia with no known (as far as I can tell) composed forebearer. Anyone know more on this one? |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Genie Date: 11 Dec 02 - 10:02 PM There are at least 3 Christmas folk songs called "The Carol Of The Birds." (See the forum for a thread that has various versions of all of them.) I especially like the one called "Whence Comes This Rush Of Wings?" |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: GUEST,Su Rynas Date: 09 Dec 02 - 11:38 PM Pat-a-pan |
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Subject: RE: List Your Favorite Folk Christmas Songs From: Haruo Date: 27 Nov 02 - 07:21 PM So, in its way, is the Tlingit version of "Santa Claus is coming to town". Haruo |
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