A Christmas Fable (Huub de Lange)

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Editor: Huub de Lange (submitted 2008-08-18).   Score information: A4, 13 pages, 405 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: #2 of 3 Christmas Songs

General Information

Title: A Christmas Fable
Composer: Huub de Lange
Lyricist: Alice V. Stuart (for more choral settings by Huub de Lange of poems by Alice V. Stuart see Three Stuart Songs and The Voice)


Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB

Genre: Sacred, Carol

Language: English
Instrument: Piano (4 Hands)
Published: 2006


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Original text and translations

English.png English text

What crew the cockerel
On Christmas morn?
It crew Christus natus est!
Loudly Christus natus est!
Gladly Christus natus est!
Christ, the Christ is born!

Quando, quando? quacked the duck.
When, O when? cried she.
In hac nocte, croacked the raven,
Humped upon a tree,
In hac nocte, in hac nocte,
This very night, quoth he.

Ubi, ubi? lowed the cow,
Where? she asked of them.
Ubi, ubi? None could tell,
Till a little lamb
Baa'ed out bravely, high and clear,
Bleated, Bethlehem.

Joyfully the donkey's voice
Answered lambkin so:
Eamus! said the ass's bray,
As all Christian men now say
Eamus! Let us go.