Lullay my liking (Gustav Holst)
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Title: Lullay My Liking
Composer: Gustav Holst
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Original text and translations
English text
- 1.
- I saw a fair maiden
- Sitten and sing:
- She lulléd a little child,
- A sweeté lording.
- Chorus:
- Lullay my liking,
- My dear son, my sweeting;
- Lullay my dear heart,
- Mine own dear darling
- 2.
- That eternal lord is he
- That made allé thing;
- Of allé lordés he is Lord
- Of allé kinges King.
- Chorus:
- 3.
- There was mickle melody
- At that childés birth:
- Though the songsters were heavenly
- They madé mickle mirth.
- Chorus:
- 4.
- Angels bright they sang that night
- And saiden to that child,
- "Blessed be thou and so be she
- That is both meek and mild."
- Chorus:
- 5.
- Pray we now to that child,
- And to his mother dear,
- God grant them all his blessing
- That now maken cheer.
- Chorus:
- "A Mediaeval Anthology"