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On Christmas night all Christians sing (Sussex Carol) |
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R. Mather |
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Traditional English |
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On Christmas night all Christians sing, Then why should men on earth be sad, When sin departs before Your grace, All out of darkness we have light |
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Created 15/09/2008 Revised 20/04/2009 |
On Christmas night all Christians sing
Sussex Carol also known as On Christmas Night True Christians Sing and On Christmas Night All Christians Sing, its words were first published by an Irish bishop, Luke Wadding, in a work called Small Garland of Pious and Godly Songs. It is not clear whether Wadding wrote the song or was recording an earlier composition.
Both the text and the tune to which it is now sung were discovered and written down by Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams, who heard it being sung by a Harriet Verrall of Monk's Gate, Sussex (hence "Sussex Carol"). The tune to which it is sung today is the one Williams took down from Mrs Verrall and published in 1919.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Metasyntactic variable".
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