10 December - Torches
Another childhood memory - this was one of the standard Carol Service pieces at St Barnabas' church, Linslade, when I was a child, and I'm not sure I've ever sung it anywhere else. Carols for Choirs 1 again, number 42. Apparently it was so well-received after John Joubert wrote the tune for a translated Galician carol in 1951 that he later said, "I've even had carol-singers come to the door and singing it, without knowing the composer lives inside."
Music: John Joubert
Words: Traditional Galician, trans. J. B. Trend
Musicians: Kathleen Jowitt, Tony Evershed
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Torches, torches, run with torches Torches, torches, run with torches Ah, Ro-Ro, Ro-Ro my baby, Sing, my friends, and make you merry, Lo, he lives, the King of Heaven, |