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Yo-Yo Ma with Alison Krauss (and others) performing "The Wexford Carol".


"The Wexford Carol"

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.

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."

With thankful heart and joyful mind,
The shepherds went the Babe to find,
And as God's angel had foretold,
They did our Saviour Christ behold.
Within a manger He was laid,
And by his side the Virgin Maid,
As long foretold, upon that morn
there was a blessed Messiah born
 
The First Noel - Crash Test Dummies


The first Noel the angels did say
Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay:
In fields where they lay keeping their sheep
On a cold winter's night that was so deep.

Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel
Born is the King of Israel.

They looked up and saw a star
Shining in the east beyond them far:
And to the earth it gave great light
And so it continued both day and night.

Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel
Born is the King of Israel.

And by the light of that same star
Three wise men came from the country far;
To seek for a King was their intent,
And to follow the star wherever it went.

Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel,
Born is the King of Israel.

This star drew nigh to the north-west;
O'er Bethlehem it took it's rest,
And there it did both stop and stay,
Right over the place where Jesus lay.
 
Here is a new Christmas song:



Christmas With You
Deborah Cheetham

Can you find your way home Christmas night?
There is a star to guide you
It shines with the light I hold in my heart.
O can you find your way home Christmas night?

Can you find your way home Christmas Day?
There's so much more I want to tell you
so much more to say
O can you find your way home Christmas Day?

We've been apart for so long now
This year has come and gone somehow and
suddenly the summer days are here bringing Christma

Can you find your way home Christmas Eve?
I had never thought you would leave
perhaps a star can guide you home this year
light the way and draw you near
How I wish that you were here
for Christmas, Christmas eve

I need no gift beneath the Christmas tree this year
Christmas with you is all I truly need my dear
Lyric and piano score in this link
 
For the more Celtic among us I think not only the there are many emotions that can be expressed in music.

Jacob Collier does seem to have a brilliant understanding of how these emotions can be constructed musically.


I think Jacob is an extremely sensitive and wise soul.
 
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