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The Coventry Carol

1.	Lully, lulay, thou little tiny child, 
	By by, lully lullay: 
	Lullay, thou little tiny child, 
	By by, lully, lullay. 

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

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

4.	Then woe is me, poor child, for thee, 
	And ever mourn and say, 
	For thy parting nor say nor sing 
	By by, lully, lullay.
  Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, 1591
Text:     Robert Croo, 1534
Music: COVENTRY CAROL §7272b
harmonization by Walford Davies, A Students' Hymnal, 1923
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