Knock At The Knocker, Ring At The Bell
Carols, songs and tunes for the Christmas season
Beautiful Jo Records (2006)
CD BEJOCD-52
Tracklist:
- Foster (While Shepherds Watched)
- Nowell Nowell
- All You Who Are To Mirth Inclined
- The Winter’s Tale / Christmas Polka
- The Man That Lives
- The Cherry Tree Carol
- November Drinking Song
- Hymn For Christmas Day
- A Virgin Unspotted
- This Is The Truth Sent From Above
- Winter / Christmas Day In The Mornin’
- Lo! The Eastern Sages Rise
- The Nine Joys Of Mary
- Wren Boys’ Song
In common with our earlier recording, Wassail! A Country Christmas, this CD features traditional carols, along with secular songs and dance tunes appropriate for Christmas and the Winter season. Many of the carols were collected from rural singers roughly one hundred years ago; the songs themselves were even then somewhat archaic, and had been left behind by changing popular taste. However some of the songs here, although they date back a couple of centuries, are still sung today, as part of vigorous community carolling traditions.