Oxford Book of Carols

By: Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Dearmer, Martin Shaw
Publisher: Oxford University Press, London et al., 1928
Language: English; Latin
Notes: Mostly but not exclusively Advent/Christmas songs
The last nine items are separately numbered and consist of "Additional folk tunes which are proper to certain carols in Part I of this book"
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92Unto us a boy is born!
93Once Mary would go wandering
94Easter eggs! Easter eggs!
95Now glad of heart be every one!
96The whole bright world rejoices now
97This child was born to men of God
98Now the spring has come again, joy and warmth will follow
99Spring has now unwrapped the flowers
100A message came to a maiden young
101All the gay gems of day
102Gabriel's message does away
103From out of a wood did a cuckoo fly
104aHow brightly beams the morning star
104bHow brightly beams the morning star
105Lord Jesus hath a garden, full of flowers gay
106Now brothers lift your voices
107Praise to God in the highest! Bless us, O Father!
108‘O I have seen a King's new Baby,’
109aO Little One sweet, O Little One mild
109bO Little One sweet, O Little One mild
110Sing, good company, frank and free!
111Sing all good people gathered
112To us in Bethlem city
113Up now, laggardly lasses
114When Caesar Augustus had raised a taxation
115O, Joseph being an old man truly
116A Babe is born all of a may
117Immortal Babe, who this dear day
118A little child there is yborn
119Angels, from the realms of glory
120In Bethlehem, that fair city
121Out of the orient crystal skies
122What sweeter music can we bring
123All this night shrill chanticleer
124Gloomy night embraced the place
125Rorate coeli desuper
126Down with the rosemary and bays
127God is ascended up on high
128Now welcome, Summer, with thy sunne soft
129Pleasure it is To hear, I wis
130Hugh! my dear, lie still and slumber
131Now blessèd be thou, Christ Jesu
132O mother dear, Jerusalem
133People, look East. The time is near
134If ye would hear the angels sing
135Earthly friends will change and falter
136Good King Wenceslas looked out
137Masters in this Hall
138O little town of Bethlehem
139The greatness of God in his love has been shown
140What songs are these, faint heard and far?
141Earth to-day rejoices
142How far is it to Bethlehem?
143The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap
144Now quit your care
145aIt is the day of all the year
145bI know a lovely angel-game
146As we rode down the steep hillside
147Cheer up, friends and neighbours
148Now is the hour of darkness past
149Now the green blade riseth
150The world itself keeps Easter Day
151’Twas about the dead of night
152How great the harvest is
153When Christ blessed his disciples
154Winds of God unfailing fill the sunlit sails
155Now April has come
156Lift your hidden faces
157The dawn-wind now is waking
158Fields of corn, give up your ears
159Sing to the Lord of harvest
160Angels holy, high and lowly
161Down in the valley where summer's laughing beam
162In every town and village
163It was about the deep of night
164Praise we the Lord, who made all beauty
165aThey saw the light shine out afar
165bLift up your heads, rejoice and dance
166Up, my neighbour, come away
167When Jesus was a baby
168`I sing the birth was born to-night
169About the field they piped full right
170Behold a simple tender babe
171aBlow, blow, thou winter wind
171bBlow, blow, thou winter wind
172Make we merry, both more and less
173Now is Christemas y-come
174Welcome be thou, heaven-king
175Dormi Jesus! Mater ridet
176In numbers, and but these few
177Out of your sleep arise and wake
178aWhen Christ was born of Mary free
178bWhen Christ was born of Mary free
179Saint Mary goes a-seeking
180Adam lay ybounden, Bounden in a bond
181O my dear heart, young Jesus sweet
182I saw a fair maiden Sitten and sing
183I sing of a maiden That is makeless
184Over yonder's a park, which is newly begun
185Sweet baby, sleep! What ails my dear?

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