This endris night - Rose, Kathryn

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⌛ Period → Contemporary ◈ Genre → Carols

♯ Key E minor

⁄ Time Signature 6/8

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range E2 – F#5

¶ Language → English

Measures 134

Texture mixed texture

Parts 6

Instruments A cappella

Pages 12

CPDL # 55796

Editor Kathryn Rose

Posted 2019-11-01

License Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike

♫Pitch Ranges

SOPRANO

B3 – F#5

ALTO

A3 – E5

TENOR

B2 – F4

BASS

E2 – E4

For rehearsal only

E2 – F4

¶Lyrics / Text

This endris night, I saw a sight, A star as bright as day, And ever among this maiden sung, Lully, by by, lullay. 1. This lovely lady sat and sang, and to her child did say, My son, my brother, my father dear, why liest thou thus in hay? My sweet bird, though it betide, thou not be King veray, But nevertheless, I will not cease to sing by by lullay. 2. The Child then spake in his talking, and to his mother he said: I bekydde am in heaven as King, in crib though I be laid; For angels bright down to me light, thou knowst it is no nay; And of that sight, thou mayst be light to sing by by lullay. 3. Now sweet son, since thou art King, why art thou laid in stall? Why not ordain thy bedding in some great kingès hall? Methink it right that king or knight should lie in good array, And then among, it were no wrong to sing, by by, lullay. 4. Mary, mother, I am thy child, though in a manger lay, Lords and dukes shall worship me, and so shall kingès all, Ye shall well see that kingès three shall come on the twelfth day, For this behest, give me thy breast, and sing by by, lullay, lullay. 5. Now, sweet son, since it is so, all things are at thy will, I pray thee, grant to me a boon, if it be right and skill, That child or man that will or can be merry upon my day, To bliss them bring, and I shall sing lully, by by, lullay. This endris night, I saw a sight, A star as bright as day, And ever among this maiden sung, Lully, by by, lullay.