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To Drive the Dark Away: 18

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: 15

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.

To Drive the Dark Away: 14

CHRISTMAS IS COMING (round)

(music)

Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat
Please to put a penny in the old man's hat,
Please to put a penny in the old man's hat.

(If you haven't got a penny,
A ha'penny will do;
If you haven't got a ha'penny,
Then God bless you!
God Bless you!

To Drive the Dark Away: 13

THIS ENDRIS NIGHT

(Music)

This endris night I saw a sight,
A star as bright as day,
And ev'r among, a maiden sung,
"Lully, bye bye, lullay."

This lovely lady sat and sang,
And to her child did say,
"My son, my brother, father dear,
Why liest thou thus in hay?"

To Drive the Dark Away: 12

THE CAROL OF THE BIRDS
(Wheeler/James)

(Music)

Out on the plains the brolgas are dancing
Lifting their feet like warhorses prancing
Up to the sun the woodlarks go winging
Faint in the dawn light echoes their singing
Crana! Orana! Orana to Christmas Day.

To Drive the Dark Away: 11

CORNISH WASSAIL

(Music)

Now Christmas is comen and New Year begin
Pray open your doors and let us come in

  With our wassail, wassail, wassail, wassail
  And joy come with our jolly wassail

To Drive the Dark Away: 10

BALULALOW (TRADITIONAL SCOTTISH)

(music)

I come from hevin which to tell
The best nowells that e'er befell
To you thir tythings threw I bring
And I will of them say and sing

This day to you is born ane child
Oh Marie meik and Virgin mild
That bliss it bairn benign and kind
Sall you rejoyce baith hart and mind

Lat us rejoys and be blyth
And with the Hyrdis go full swyth
And see what God of his grace hes done
Throu Christ to bring us to his throne

To Drive the Dark Away: 9

THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY

(Music)

Come they told me,
     (pa-rum-pum-pum-pum-mm)
Our new-born King to see,
     (pa-rum-pum-pum-pum-mm)
Our finest gifts we bring,
     (pa-rum-pum-pum-pum-mm)
To lay before the King,
     (pa-rum-pum-pum-pum,
     rum-pum-pum-pum,
     rum-pum-pum-pum)
So to honor Him,
     (pa-rum-pum-pum-pum-mm)
When we come.

To Drive the Dark Away: 8

Gaudete

(Music)

Gaudete! gaudete! Christus est natus ex Maria Virgine: Gaudete!

Tempus adest gratiae, Hoc quod optabamus;
Carmina laeticiae Devote redamus.