A carol for 2020

[minoanmiss]

It was this or "I heard the bells on Christmas Day," really, and that one is a little too hopeful. I wish I could record myself singing this for you.

Refrain
Jesus, Jesus, rest your head.
You has got a manger bed.
All the evil folk on earth
Sleep in feathers at their birth.
Jesus, Jesus, rest your head.
You has got a manger bed.

1. Have you heard about our Jesus?
Have you heard about his fate?
How his mammy went to the stable
On that Christmas Eve so late?
Winds were blowing, cows were lowing,
Stars were glowing, glowing, glowing. Refrain

2. To the manger came the Wise Men.
Bringing from hin and yon,
For the mother and the father,
And the blessed little Son.
Milkmaids left their fields and flocks
And sat beside the ass and ox. Refrain

-- Traditional Appalachian collected by John Jacob Niles

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

I hope you have the most wonderful holiday possible.

[bikergeek]

I'm tempted to write a filk with the first line of "COVID spreading by a dumpster fire," TTTO the obvious.

[cmcmck]

I wish you could too! :o)

Have a good holiday!

[oracne]

That's a great carol.