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Sweet Chiming Bells

The 25th Track 1

I learned Sweet Chiming Bells in the 1970s from John Jones, singer and melodeon player with the Oyster Ceilidh Band (as Oysterband were known back then). It’s a carol which is widely sung in – Yorkshire, where the words of ‘While Shepherds Watched’ are sung to dozens of different tunes – and in the Salvation Army. This version is as sung in John Jones’ home village of Meltham, near Holmfirth in South Yorkshire.

 

You can hear a live recording of this carol at A Folk Song A Week