Sans Day Carol (Traditional)
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General Information
Title: Sans day Carol
Composer: Traditional
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carols
Language: English
Instruments: organ
Published: From The Cornish Song Book (London: Reid Bros., Ltd., 1929), p. 123.
Description: Traditional words and music from the Oxford Book of Carols, collected in Cornwall. St. Day was a Breton saint.
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Original text and translations
English text
- 1.
- Now the holly bears a berry
- as white as the milk,
- And Mary bore Jesus,
- all wrapped up in silk:
- Refrain:
- And Mary bore Jesus
- our Saviour for to be,
- And the first tree in the greenwood,
- it was the holly. Holly! Holly!
- And the first tree in the greenwood,
- it was the holly!
- 2.
- Now the holly bears a berry
- as green as the grass,
- And Mary bore Jesus,
- who died on the cross:
- 3.
- Now the holly bears a berry
- as black as the coal,
- And Mary bore Jesus,
- who died for us all:
- 4.
- Now the holly bears a berry,
- as blood is it red,
- Then trust we our Saviour,
- who rose from the dead: