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The Wexford Carol
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Traditional text
in English
Duration: 4 1/2
minutes
Difficulty rating (1-5): 3
This is another
song Sherri
suggested I set,
and I’m glad she
did. And there are
some interesting
things I
discovered. If you
listen to Irish
folk singers sing
this carol all the
downbeats, and
therefore
also text
stresses, are one
beat different
than the versions
you see in carol
books. I used the
Irish folk singers
as my model for
this piece. I
really feel they
have it right. I
am also hoping
choirs, and
whoever sings the
solo, will sing it
in a folk music
style without too
much prettiness by
emphasizing the
angular rhythms,
melodic jumps and
the storytelling.
TEXT
Good people all, this
Christmas-time,
consider well and bear in mind
what our good God for us has done
in sending his beloved Son.
With Mary holy we should pray
to God with love this Christmas day;
in Bethlehem upon that morn
there was a blessed Messiah born.
The night before that happy
tide
the noble Virgin and her guide
were long time seeking up and down
to find a lodging in the town.
But mark how all things came to
pass;
from every door repelled alas!
As long foretold, their refuge all
was but an humble oxen stall.
Near Bethlehem did shepherds keep
their flocks of lambs and feeding sheep,
to whom God's angels did appear
which put the shepherds in great fear.
"Arise and go," the angels said.
"To Bethlehem, be not afraid;
for
there you'll find, this happy morn,
a princely babe, sweet Jesus born."
There were three wise men from afar
directed by a glorious star,
and on they wandered night and day
until they came to where Jesus lay.
And when they came unto that place
where our beloved Messiah was,
they humbly laid them at his feet,
their gifts of gold and incense sweet.
(repeat verse 1)
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