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An Albion Christmas
The Albion Christmas Band
Recorded at Woodworm Studios, Barford St Michael, Oxfordshire, in 2003
Engineer: Paul Smith
Design by Malcolm Holmes
for Johnny Boy Productions
Musicians
Kellie While, vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion, keyboards;
All tracks Trad. arr. The Albion Christmas Band, except
Track 5 John Tams (Mole Music)
Track 6 Simon Care (Copyright Control)
Track 8 Trad. / Kellie While (Copyright Control)
Tracks 12,
13 Sydney Carter (Essex Music)
Track 14 Jackson Browne (Swallow Turn Music)
Track 15 Trad. / Ashley Hutchings (Albino Music)
Track 17 Simon Care (Albino Music)
Here We Come A-Wassailing
(Trad. Arr)
Here we come a-wassailing among the leaves so green,
Here we come
a-wandering so fairly to be seen,
Now is winter-time strangers travel far and near,
And we wish you, send you a happy
New Year.
Bud and blossom, bud and blossom, bud and bloom and bear,
So we
may have plenty of cider all next year;
Apples are in capfuls are in bushel bags and all,
And there's cider running
out of every gutter hole.
Down here in the muddy lane there sits an old red fox,
Starving
and a-shivering and licking his old chops;
Bring us out your table and spread it if you please,
And give us hungry wassailers
a bit of bread and cheese.
I've got a little purse and it's made of leather skin,
A little
silver sixpence it would line it well within;
Now is winter-time; strangers travel far and near,
And we wish you, send
you a happy New Year.
The King
(Trad. Arr)
Joy, health, love and peace
Be all here in this place
By your
leave we will sing
Concerning our king
Our king is well dressed
In the silks of the best
In ribbons
so rare
No king can compare
We have travelled many miles
Over hedges and stiles
In search
of our king
Unto you we bring
We have powder and shot
To conquer the lot
We have cannon and
ball
To conquer them all
Old Christmas is past
Twelve tide is the last
And we bid you
adieu
Great joy to the new
Julian of Norwich
Loud are the bells of Norwich
And the people come and go.
Here
by the tower of Julian
I tell them what I know.
(Chorus)
Ring out, bells of Norwich
And let the winter come and go,
All
shall be well again I know
Love like a yellow daffodil
Is coming through the snow
Love
like a yellow daffodil
Is Lord of all I know
(Chorus)
Ring for the yellow daffodil
The flower in the snow,
Ring
for the yellow daffodil
And tell them what I know.
(Chorus)
Ring out, bells of Norwich
And let the winter come and go,
All
shall be well again I know.
All shall be well I'm telling you,
Let the winter come and go.
All shall be well again
I know
Come, Love, Carolling
(Chorus)
Come, love carolling along in me!
Come, love carolling along
in me!
All the while, wherever I may me,
I carry the maker of the world in me.
Lifting and loving you that I am not,
Though your body is my
bone and blood,
I wonder at the maker who can be
Before I am and yet a child of me.
(Chorus)
I lift and I carry you to Bethlehem,
I lift and I carry you to Galilee
I'll
carry you wherever I may be,
I carry the maker of the world in me.
(Chorus)
In the beginning you were there, I know,
And you will carry
me wherever I go.
I'll carry you wherever I may be,
I carry the maker of the world in me.
(Chorus 4x)
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- On Christmas Night All Christians Sing (2:52)
- Somerset Wassail (2:47)
- Gloucester Wassail (3:17)
- Here We Come A-Wassailing (2:37)
- Snow Falls (5:33)
- The Advent Polka / Saint Nick's Brawl (1:54)
- My Father Played the Melodeon (2:04)
- Rejoice and Be Merry (3:29)
- Sir Roger De Coverly (1:27)
- The Wren Song (2:15)
- The King (2:28)
- Julian of Norwich (3:06)
- Come Love Carolling (2:31)
- Rebel Jesus (4:53)
- Little Johnny England (3:57)
- Sweet Chiming Bells (4:14)
- Bell Tower Polka (1:36)
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Related Internet Links
our complete website, featuring songs
records, tour dates and much much more.
the unofficially official website
our new website that celebrates
Christmas in England through
various eyes
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Regional and historical carols
and songs from midwinter traditions
includes another arrangement
of The Gloucester Wassail.
from
Coope, Boyes & Simpson,
Fi Fraser, Jo Freya and
Georgina Boyes.
Coop Boyes and Simpson
have appeared on a number
of Ashley Hutchings' albums
1342-ca. 1416
medieval religious mystic
and anchorite
Sydney Carter's most
famous song.
it was composed in 1963
many people believe it's
old because it's a
hymn they sang at school
and no...it's not Celtic.
has been associated with
Christmas and New Year
as far back as the 1400s
and earlier.
this from the
Christmas in England
webpages, created by
Tonbridge, Kent, UK,
and is part of an incredibly
comprehensive and very interesting
website.
Well Done!
a link related to the
song The King.
describing the hunting of
the wren
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