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Secular Carol (Original Title in Parenthese) 8 Rejoices of Winter (7 Rejoices of Mary) https://trampleprancers.blogspot.com/2024/12/8-rejoices-of-winter-7-rejoices-of-mary.html Away in A Burrow (Away in a Manger ) https://trampleprancers.blogspot.com/2024/12/away-in-burrow-away-in-manger_16.html Blessed Be the Working Class (Blessed Be the Maid Marie)…
Not so long ago I spent a lot of time, energy, and a bit of financial investment in ideologies that would no longer hold significance for me. Leaving religion can be to varying degrees traumatic; my religious practices provided much happiness and little strife. Letting go of spirituality, like any satisfying habit, was difficult to say the least. Aside from a few social associations of less…
8 Rejoices of Winter (The 7 Rejoices of Mary) I am most familiar with Loreena McKennitt’s version. The melody has long been in the public domain and has been used in many songs. This is the first one I did. I spelled it with the numeral so it could be alphabetized first in honor of that. I crowd-sourced through Facebook what people’s favorite things about winter are, specific to the season and…
Away in A Burrow (Away in a Manger) This one was so quaint and adorable that I had a tough time recording it without laughing. Since recording it, I changed 1 word in the last verse, but I’ll likely not bother going back to re-record. The most popular musical setting in the United States is commonly known as "Mueller". The melody was first published, under the title "Luther's Cradle Hymn", by…
Blessed Be The Working Class (Blessed Be The Maid Marie) This carol first appeared in the 1901 “Cowley Carol Book”, a collection of 15th-century tunes compiled by G.R. Woodward. - Jwpepper.com Our Changing Climate has a video on Nebula called “Why We Actually Need A War On Christmas” focusing on its commercialization. From that video I was inspired to create a song that reflects class solidarity…
Breton Carol Loreena McKennitt’s instrumental version is the only one I heard until 2021 or '22, and I’ve yet to hear it in English. The chieftains recorded this in 1987. The album's liner notes state that the music was selected from a publication entitled Tonioù Breizh -Izel (Traditional Tunes from Lower Brittany), which contains over 3,000 tunes collected by Polig Monjarret , who collaborated…
By Frozen Paths ( Balulalow ) Original text is from the 1500s. It's listed on Loreena McKennitt's credits as traditional, unsure about the date of origin for the melody. Other songs with the same title don’t necessarily have the same melody. By frozen paths I come to tell The story of how winter fell To you these tidings true I bring And I will of them say and sing. Inside of you is born the light…
Coventry Carol Text and melody are both from the 1500s. The original song’s lyrics are rather vague and require that the listener/singer already know the story of King Herod and his shenanigans. I am echoing that nebulousness with these lyrics. Basically, the narrator and 2 women, whether literal sisters or sisters in comradery , are solemnly contemplating the tenuous future of a new member of the…
Dark! The winter solstice night (Hark! The Herald Angels Sing) This is an English Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection Hymns and Sacred Poems. The carol … features … music adapted from " Vaterland , in deinen Gauen " by Felix Mendelssohn. - Wikipedia I wrote these lyrics to celebrate the tradition of telling ghost stories during the Christmas holiday – a tradition that…
Do you hear what I hear? (Bing Crosby) This is a song written in October 1962, with lyrics by Noël Regney and music by Gloria Shayne. The pair, married at the time, wrote it as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Regney had been invited by a record producer to write a Christmas song, but he was hesitant due to the commercialism of Christmas. It has sold tens of millions of copies and…