The Oxen - Upton, Christopher

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◈ Genre → Carols

♯ Key G minor

⁄ Time Signature 3/4

♬ Voicing → SSATB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range A2 – G5

¶ Language → English

Measures 38

Texture mixed texture

Parts 7

Instruments Piano

Pages 8

CPDL # 77791

Editor Christopher Upton

Posted 2023-12-03

License Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike

♫Pitch Ranges

D4 – F5

C4 – D5

G3 – A4

G3 – F4

A2 – G3

Pno.

A2 – G3

¶Lyrics / Text

Christmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. “Now they are all on their knees,” An elder said as we sat in a flock By the embers in hearthside ease. We pictured the meek mild creatures where They dwelt in their strawy pen, Nor did it occur to one of us there To doubt they were kneeling then. So fair a fancy few would weave In these years! Yet, I feel, If someone said on Christmas Eve, “Come; see the oxen kneel, “In the lonely barton by yonder coomb Our childhood used to know,” I should go with him in the gloom, Hoping it might be so.