A Christmas Fable (Huub de Lange)

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Editor: Huub de Lange (added 2006-10-13).   Score information: A4, 8 pages, 188 kbytes   Copyright: Personal
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General Information

Title: A Christmas Fable
Composer: Huub de Lange
Lyricist: Alice Stuartcreate page

Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol

Language: English
Instruments: a cappella
Published: 2006

Description: Text A Christmas Fable - poem by the Scottish poet Alice Stuart (1899-1983); for more music of Huub de Lange on poems by Alice Stuart see Three Stuart Songs

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Original text and translations

English.png English text

What crew the cockerel
On Christmas morn?
It crew Christus natus est!
Loudly Christus natus est!
Gladly Christus natus est!
Christ, the Christ is born!

Quando, quando? quacked the duck.
When, O when? cried she.
In hac nocte, croacked the raven,
Humped upon a tree,
In hac nocte, in hac nocte,
This very night, quoth he.

Ubi, ubi? lowed the cow,
Where? she asked of them.
Ubi, ubi? None could tell,
Till a little lamb
Baa'ed out bravely, high and clear,
Bleated, Bethlehem.

Joyfully the donkey's voice
Answered lambkin so:
Eamus! said the ass's bray,
As all Christian men now say
Eamus! Let us go.