There Joseph On His Sleeping Lay
Words from the Cursor Mundi (14th Cent.). Melody of gude Wallace, harmonized by C. W.
Notes and Source: George Ratcliffe Woodward, ed., The Cowley Carol Book For Christmas, Easter, and Ascensiontide, Second Series (London: A. R. Mowbray & Co., Ltd, ca. 1919), Carol #88
1. There Joseph on his sleeping
lay,
An Angel thus to him gan say,
“Rise up, Joseph, and
busk and go
With Mary and her Child also.
For you behoves now
all three,
In land of Egypt for to flee.
2. “Rise up, rise up, ere it
be day,
And follow for the wildrin way;
Herod, that is the
Childe's fa,
From now will seek him for to sla.
There shall ye
dwell still with the Barn
Till that I eft come you to warn.”
Sheet Music from George
Ratcliffe Woodward, ed., The Cowley Carol Book For Christmas,
Easter, and Ascensiontide, Second Series (London: A. R. Mowbray &
Co., Ltd, ca. 1919), Carol #88
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