Lully lulla, thou little tiny child (Jennifer Bastable)

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• (Posted 2024-10-08)  CPDL #82289:       

Editor: Jennifer Bastable (submitted 2024-10-08).   Score information: Letter, 7 pages, 416 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Lully lulla, thou little tiny child
Composer: Jennifer Bastable
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 5vv   Voicing: SSATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published:
Description: A setting for five voices (SMzATB) of the text of The Coventry Carol.

Original text and translations

English text

(Note: this setting has 'morn and day' in the final verse, rather than the alternative 'mourn and say' given in the main link for The Coventry Carol.)

Lully Lulla, thou little tiny child,
By by lully lullay.

O sisters too, how may we do
For to preserve this day
This poor youngling for whom we do sing
by by lully lullay.

Herod the king, in his raging,
Charged he hath this day
His man of might in his own sight
All young children to slay.

That woe is me, poor child, for thee,
And ever morn and day
for thy parting neither say nor sing
by by lully lullay.

Lully Lulla, thou little tiny child,
By by lully lullay.