Once As I Remember Top Pick
For Unison or SATB unaccompanied choir - Teach your choristers this carol provided with stanzas specific to Lessons
& Carols in one and Epiphany in the other. So you can sing it twice with no rehearsal needed in between! Part of our Chorister Collection, our series of masterworks that are adapted for use with children or even soloists! Curated and edited by Thom Pavlechko.
Once, as I remember,
At the time of Yule,
After mid December,
When it bloweth cool,
I o'erheard a Mother
Was a-singing, 'Sweet Jesu,
La-lullay-lu, La-lullay-lu.'
Near as man was able,
On my knee fell I,
in the Bethlem stable
Where the Babe did lie,
And the Virgin-mother
Was a-singing, 'Sweet Jesu,
La-lullay-lu, La-lullay-lu.'
Ox and ass around him,
Courtier-like, did stand:
Fair white linen bound him,
Spun by Mary's hand.
While the Virgin-mother
Was a-singing, 'Sweet Jesu,
La-lullay-lu, La-lullay-lu.'
Ever among and o'er us
Angel-quire gan sing
Antiphons in chorus
To the new-born King.
Then the Virgin-mother
Fell a-singing, 'Sweet Jesu,