Lullay my liking

Gustav Holst

Choose your part: hear the opening with it lifted out of the choir, then practise it in the app. Free, and without an account.

The parts

The opening, 16 bars, on the app's piano: your part clearly, the others quietly.

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Verse 1
Lullay my liking, my dear Son, my sweeting; Lullay my dear heart, mine own dear darling! I saw a fair maiden Sitten and sing: She lullèd a little child, A sweetè lording: That eternal lord is he That made allè thing; Of allè lordès he is Lord, Of allè kingès King: There was mickle melody At that childès birth: Although they were in heaven's bliss They madè mickle mirth: Angels bright they sang that night And saiden tothat child 'Blessed be thou, and so be she that is so meek and mild': Pray we now to that child, And to his mother dear, God grant them all his blessing That now maken cheer:

Free to sing: Gustav Holst died in 1934.