Another sort of guilty-pleasure-type recording. :)
The basics would be me and my guitar playing stuff I wrote as well as the occasional cover, but occasionally there's a piano or another person involved.
Story behind the song
The Coventry Carol is a traditional English song that dates from 16th century Coventry, England. It was performed there as part of a religious play called The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, which depicts King Herod's massacre of all male babies in Bethlehem in an attempt to kill the infant Jesus Christ. The text is a mother's lament for her murdered son, and foreshadows the fact that while people around the world will sing hymns and caroles honoring the escaped Messiah for thousands of years to come, the hundreds of innocent children massacred for his sake in Bethlehem will be largely forgotten.
The original author of the carole is unknown. The words are often attributed to Robert Croo, who wrote it down in 1534; the oldest known printing of the melody dates the late 1500s.
Lyrics
Lullay, Thou little tiny Child,
By, by, lully, lullay.
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 sing,
By, by, lully, lullay.
Herod the King, in his raging,
Charged he hath this day;
His men of might, in his own sight,
All children young, to slay.
Then woe is me, poor Child, for Thee,
And ever mourn and say;
For Thy parting, nor say nor sing,
By, by, lully, lullay.
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