I Sing of a Maiden

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Composer
Robert W. Lehman
Difficulty
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Season
Advent
Voicing(s)
2-part
Instruments
C-Instrument Guitar
Category
Anthems
Collections
Advent for About 10 Panicked Singers
Description

For Two-Part Choir (or soloists), 2 C-Instruments, and guitar (classically notated). This hauntingly beautiful setting is perfect for your Advent IV service, your Advent OR Christmas Lessons and Carols, or anytime during the Christmas season. Guitar part notated and edited by Stephen Robinson. Anon. 15th century text.

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Lyrics

I sing of a maiden
That is makeless;
King of all kings
To her son she ches.

He came all so stille,
Where his mother was,
As dew in April
That falleth on the grass.

He came all so stille,
To his mother’s bower,
As dew in April
That falleth on the flower.

He came all so stille,
Where his mother lay,
As dew in April
That falleth on the spray.

Mother and maiden
Was never none but she;
Well may such a lady
Godës mother be.