It probably is the one you're thinking of - we sang it as part of an alternative nativity in primary school. Instead of focussing on the traditional story, it looks at the shepherds' journey, etc. The three wise men stayed with a woodcutter one night. The song's in G maj 3/4 (I can't do this very well...) it goes: drd ldl rmr d I think! The words start off: 'One night, three strangers I'd not seen before...and all dressed in royal robes stood outside my door..'

Ah - well, I would write it as: s, / d dd dd m d / s, s,l,t, rd

In other words, notes below doh are normally written with a little dash like a comma.

Hope this unconfuzzles you a bit!

"It was on a starry night"

I think that's the title, we sung it my primary school. It's the sort of song that brings back warm happy memories!

This is my favourite! (In fact I was playing it last evening, funnily enough...)

I'm not 100% sure of the first phrase, I've never sung it, only accompanied it!



Thanks for that Cyrilla. I've never seen that before, only d' if it's an octave above. Noodle now less confuzzled!

Ah - which is why you knew the intro and not the first phrase of the song!

*understands now*

i have to admit that coventary carol is beautiful! - It ends in a major key at the end of a minor peice - what's the name for this??

Tierce de picardie.

O come all ye faithful, the descant part especially.
Calypso carol!

I don't like Sussex carol, but lots of people seem to! I also *hate* John Rutter at an time of year, including Christmas!

mine is, oh i don't know the title, hang on I'll whistle it



another clue ? Keejay or something, I love it, anyone know which one I mean

I think that must be the same piece that Nicki was asking about on another thread - the Troika from Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kije.

It was on a starry night,
When the hills were bright,
Earth lay sleeping, sleeping calm and still.
And in a cattle shed,
In a manger bed,
*hum hum hum hum, hum hum hum hum hum*


We do a piece in wind orchestra called Calypso Christmas, which is really cool!!!

That's it well done that's the one i like best

didng dong merrily on high

o little town of bethlehem

the holly and the ivy

the first noel

On the 1st day of christmas my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree! I love that one! I don't know any of the words apart from a partridge in a pear tree! And in our strings group we're doing Mary had a baby.

i love them all!!!! christmas is the best!!!

what are the words to the coventry carol? i dont think ive heard that one

Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child,
By by, lully lullay.

1. O sisters too, how may we do
For to preserve this day
This poor youngling, for whom we do sing,
By by, lully lullay?

2. Herod, the king, in his raging,
Charged he hath this day
His men of might, in his own sight,
All youn children to slay.

3. That woe is me, poor child for thee!
And ever morn and day,
For thy parting neither say nor sing,
By by, lully lullay!

nope, never heard of it