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.