From James Beale
Collected by Cecil Sharp, Warehorne, 23rd September 1908
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Words CJS2/9/1783, Folk Tunes CJS2/10/1924
This was presumably one of the songs which the Beale family would sing when they went out carolling. The carol was also noted by Cecil Sharp from James Beale’s daughter Alice Harden, while his son Albert Beale was recorded singing the song in 1954.
Mrs Alice Harding i.e. Alice Harden
Collected by Cecil Sharp, Ham Street, 11th October 1911
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Tunes CJS2/10/2704
This was presumably one of the songs which the Beale family would sing when they went out carolling. Sharp had previously noted the tune and words from Alice’s father James Beale, and Peter Kennedy recorded her brother Albert Beale singing the carol in 1954.
Mrs Alice Harding i.e. Alice Harden
Collected by Cecil Sharp, Ham Street, 11th October 1911
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Tunes CJS2/10/2705
This was presumably one of the songs which the Beale family would sing when they went out carolling.
Mrs Alice Harding i.e. Alice Harden
Collected by Cecil Sharp, Ham Street, 11th October 1911
Cecil Sharp MSS, Folk Tunes CJS2/10/2706B
This was presumably one of the songs which the Beale family would sing when they went out carolling.
Sharp did not note any words, which suggests that Mrs Harden’s text followed a standard pattern – see, for example, the verses printed in the Oxford Book of Carols, available at https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.546842/page/151/mode/1up
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