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To Drive the Dark Away: 24

May you all be of good cheer and blessed in this holiday season.

- Moe

The Parting Glass

(music)

Of all the money ere I had, I spent it in good company,

  And all the harm I've ever done, alas was done to none but me
  and all I've done for want of wit, to memory now I can't recall
  so fill me to the parting glass, goodnight and joy be with you all.

 

Of all the comrades ere I had, they're sorry for my going away,
  and all the sweethearts ere I had , they wish me one more day to stay,
  but since it falls unto my lot that I should go and you should not,
  I'll gently rise and softly call, goodnight and joy be with you all.

 

If I had money enough to spend and leisure time to sit awhile
  there is a fair maid in this town who sorely has my heart beguiled
  Her rosey cheeks and ruby lips, I alone she has my heart in thrall
  so fill me to the porting glass goodnight and joy be with you all.

To Drive the Dark Away: 23

Health to the Company

(music)

Kind friends and companions, come join me in rhyme
  Come lift up your voices in chorus with mine
  Let us drink and be merry, all grief to refrain
  For we may and might never all meet here again

 

Chorus:
  Here's a health to the company and one to my lass
  Let us drink and be merry all out of one glass
  Let us drink and be merry, all grief to refrain
  For we may and might never all meet here again

To Drive the Dark Away: 22

I BEG YOUR LEAVE

(Music)

I beg your leave, kind gentlemen and ladies of renown
If you please to give us room, we will sing to you a song
If you please to give us room, we will sing to you a song
And I'll call on me comrades, I'll call them one by one.

Cho: For we're jolly boys, we do no harm, wherever we may go
     And we've come a pace-egging as you very well do know.

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Stille Nacht (GERMAN)

(music)

1. Stille Nacht! Heil'ge Nacht!
Alles schläft; einsam wacht
Nur das traute hoch heilige Paar.
Holder Knab' im lockigten Haar,
|: Schlafe in himmlischer Ruh! :|

2. Stille Nacht! Heil'ge Nacht!
Gottes Sohn, o wie lacht
Lieb' aus deinem göttlichen Mund,
Da uns schlägt die rettende Stund'.
|: Jesus in deiner Geburt! :|

3. Stille Nacht! Heil'ge Nacht!
Die der Welt Heil gebracht,
Aus des Himmels goldenen Höhn,
Uns der Gnaden Fülle läßt sehn,
|: Jesum in Menschengestalt! :|

4. Stille Nacht! Heil'ge Nacht!
Wo sich heut alle Macht
Väterlicher Liebe ergoß,
Und als Bruder huldvoll umschloß
|: Jesus die Völker der Welt! :|

5. Stille Nacht! Heil'ge Nacht!
Lange schon uns bedacht,
Als der Herr vom Grimme befreit
In der Väter urgrauer Zeit
|: Aller Welt Schonung verhieß! :|

6. Stille Nacht! Heil'ge Nacht!
Hirten erst kundgemacht
Durch der Engel Alleluja,
Tönt es laut bei Ferne und Nah:
|: "Jesus der Retter ist da!" :|

To Drive the Dark Away: 20

THE DITCHLING CAROL

(Music)

Be merry all, be merry all.
With holly deck the festive hall.
Prepare the song, the feast, the hall
To welcome merry Christmas.

cho: And all remember, gentles gay:
     For you who bask in fortune's ray
     The year is all a holiday.
     The poor have only Christmas.

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SOMERSET WASSAIL

(Music)

Wassail and wassail all over the town
The cup it is white and the ale it is brown
The cup it is made of the good ashen tree
And so is the malt of the best barley

  For its your wassail and its our wassail
  And its joy be to you and a jolly wassail

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MY DANCING DAY

(Music)

Tomorrow shall be my dancing day,
I would my true love did so chance
To see the legend of my play,
And call my true love to my dance.

cho: Sing O my love, O my love, my love, my love
     This have I done for my true love.

To Drive the Dark Away: 17

Lord of the Dance

(Music)

I danced in the morning
              When the world was begun,
              And I danced in the moon
              And the stars and the sun,
              And I came down from heaven
              And I danced on the earth,
              At Bethlehem
              I had my birth.

To Drive the Dark Away: 16

GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN

(Music)

While shepherds kept their watching
O'er silent flocks by night,
Behold throughout the heavens
There shone a holy light

cho: Go, tell it on the mountain
     Over the hills and everywhere
     Go, tell it on the mountain
     That Jesus Christ is born.

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CAROL FOR NEW YEARS DAY

(Music)

The old year now away is fled
The new year now is entered;
Then let us now our sins down tread
     And joyfully all appear.
Let's merry be this holiday
And let us run with sport and play
Hang sorrow, let's cast care away
     God send you a happy new year.