The Wexford Carol, "Good People All this Christmas Time" (setting Aaron Shows) | Hauptwerk
· 31.12.2022 · 19:18:31 ··· ··· Saturday ·· 6 (6)
Jerry Martin I was blessed to spend Christmas with family at home in Ireland this year. "The Wexford Carol," sometimes known by its first verse "Good people all this Christmas time", is of uncertain origins -- but likely was composed in the 15th or 16th century based on its musical and lyrical style. The song achieved a renewed popularity due to the work of William Grattan Flood (1859–1928), who was organist and musical director at St. Aidan's Cathedral in Enniscorthy. He transcribed the carol from a local singer and had it published in The Oxford Book of Carols, putting Enniscorthy into most carol books around the world.
This lovely arrangement by @aaronshows is available in his anthology "Sounding Joy" available directly from the publisher, and all good music retailers. https://www.augsburgfortress.org/store/product/9781506426396/Sounding-Joy-Organ-Settings-for-Christmas.
Check out Aaron's performance here: https://youtu.be/MOYe4bJ0afg
Do consider following him - he does a very entertaining weekly livestream featuring music you might not commonly expect on the organ!
Good people all, this Christmas time
Consider well and bear in mind
What our good God for us has done
In sending his beloved son
With Mary holy we should pray
To God with love this Christmas Day
In Bethlehem upon that morn
There was a blessed Messiah born
Near Bethlehem did shepherds keep
Their flocks of lambs and feeding sheep
To whom God's angels did appear
Which put the shepherds in great fear
'Prepare and go, ' the angels said
'To Bethlehem, be not afraid
For there you'll find, this happy morn
A princely babe, sweet Jesus born
With thankful heart and joyful mind
The shepherds went, this babe to find
And as God's angel had foretold
They did our saviour Christ behold
Within a manger he was laid
And by his side the virgin maid
Attending on the Lord of life
Who came on earth to end all strife
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