Today is the #4thDayofChristmas otherwise known as #InnocentsDay or #Childermas, so here is an #anonymous #17thCentury #ballad #carol for the day from Good and true, fresh and new #Christmas #carols, 1642.

To be sung to the tune of the Spanish Pavan

It's surprisingly cheerful...

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Today is the #4thDayofChristmas, and #InnocentsDay or #Childermas, so here's an #anonymous #16thCentury #song for the day.
The 'Coventry' #carol is probably the best known of #Tudor #carols, would have been sung originally by the women in The #Pageant of the Shearmen & Taylors, one of the #Coventry #MysteryPlays.

Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Christopher Goodwin: #lute
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: #alto
Jack Merivale:# bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dglylGJ6aic&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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