Lyr Req: The Taunton Carol

Subject: Lyr Req: The Taunton Carol
From: cyder_drinker
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 11:41 AM

A friend has music for this but can't find any words.
It's an 18th century traditional carol from Taunton, Somerset, UK.
I've googled till my eyes hurt, does anyone here have any words?

Thanks in advance,
CD

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Taunton Carol
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 12:55 PM

A quick search via google returns one reference, in a newspaper report, to "the Taunton Carol, sub-titled A Lovely Lady Sat and Sang". That would be the first line, then. Try The Virgin and Child, and see if that is what you are looking for.

The carol appeared in Christmas Carols New and Old (Bramley and Stainer, 1871), the whole of which can be seen in facsimile via this link. I don't know what the connection with Taunton might be.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Taunton Carol
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 02:24 PM

See also this Virgin and child and the links there to version of This Endris Night which contains the words This lovely lady sat and sang which have plenty of information on the sources. (But still not a Taunton connection that I can see!).

Mick

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Taunton Carol
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 26 Dec 05 - 03:02 PM

That text is copied from Bramley & Stainer, so I didn't mention it. I ought to have done, though, as the links to various forms of This Endris Night are interesting and relevant, and an early tune is reproduced from Shaw and Dearmer's English Carol Book.

Bramley and Stainer list their melody as written by the organist and composer Charles Steggall (1826-1905).

Assuming that this (in one or other of its forms) is the song wanted, it's likely enough that "Taunton Carol" is just a local name; much as other carols and songs have acquired local names while originating elsewhere (Holmfirth Anthem, for example).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Taunton Carol
From: cyder_drinker
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 06:33 AM

Thanks for that folks, This Endris Night seems to be the most likely contender. The words scan with the tune I have, so on behalf of my friends - Thankyou!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Taunton Carol
From: GUEST,Bridgwater memories
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 09:17 AM

dunno about Taunton Carol..????

but there was a Carol just up the road in Bridgwater
who was a right goer at college discos back in the late 70's

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Tonto Carol
From: Severn
Date: 27 Dec 05 - 12:33 PM

"Nyah,
Nyah Nyah
Nyah
Nyah

I got a present and yoo-oo-ou didn't...."


....No, wait!.....That's the Taunting Carol....


Oops!....

Sorry!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Taunton Carol
From: MuddleC
Date: 28 Dec 05 - 07:29 AM

my god..... life .. in Taunton......still??


-could try the song 'Richard of Taunton Deane


signed an old Tauntonian who ran away to sea, and now is in the midlands...!!!