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Balulalow (Cradle Song)

[ Roud 23036 ; James, John and Robert Wedderburn]

This unreleased Home Demo of Winter 1968 is a carol (#181 in the Oxford Book of Carols) which was published by the Wedderburn brothers - 16th Century Scottish poets - under the title Ane song of the Birth of Christ (“I come from Heaven to tell”) in their Ane Compendious Buik of Godly and Spiritualt Sangis in 1567. It is a translation of Luther's Christmas Eve carol Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her, first published in 1535 in Geistliche Lieder.

Lyrics

O my deir hert, young Jesus sweit,
Prepare thy creddil in my spreit,
And I sall rock thee in my hert
And never mair from thee depart.

But I sall praise thee evermore
With sangis sweit unto thy gloir;
The knees of my heart sall I bow,
And sing that richt Balulalow!

The knees of my heart sall I bow,
And sing that richt Balulalow!