Festival of Lessons & Carols

Carol: Coventry Carol

Please remain seated and listen as the choir sing

Lully, lulla, thou little tiny, by by lully lullay,
Thou little tiny child, by by, lully lullay

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

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

That woe is me, poor child for thee!
And ever morn and day,
For thy parting, neither say nor sing
By by lully lullay

Lully, lulla, thou little tiny, by by lully lullay,
Thou little tiny child, by by, lully lullay