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Sleeve Notes
"Christmas is coming and the geese are getting fat and the snow is lying heavy on the poor man's pack" and for everybody the season of tinsel and turkey — and frosty winds — will be just around the corner.
But even if the snow doesn't lie thick on the countryside it will, of course, still be Christmas; lor many people a time of great religious significance, attended by the usual festive traditions, and for the children a time of great expectations, long awaited and too soon passed. In churches and schools, in towns and villages, the sound of carol singers will ring out — not always in tune, perhaps, but full of the right intentions. Each of you will have your own particular favourites, usually associated with your childhood memories of Christmas. Who has not sung "Away in a Manger" or "Good King Wenceslas" at some time or another?
From the rich hoard of Christmas music we have chosen to sing "I Saw Three Ships A-Sailing", surely one of the happiest songs about Christmas, and another favourite of ours "The Cherry Tree Carol".
"Christ Was Born in Bethlehem" is perhaps less well known. Unlike the other carols it is not only concerned with the birth of Christ but rather more with his life, death and resurrection. We collected this version from Anne Ward and we are sure you will like it as much as we do. "The Gift O' Gowd" is a modern carol with words and music by W. Gordon Smith. It was written especially for Paddie to sing on a Christmas broadcast programme.
Best wishes,
The Corrie Folk Trio and Paddie Bell