Up! good Christen folk, and listen
arr. George Ratcliffe Woodward
Choose your part: hear the opening with it lifted out of the choir, then practise it in the app. Free, and without an account.
- Voicing
- SATB
- Key
- C major
- Time
- 4/4
- Length
- 37 bars
The parts
The opening, 16 bars, on the app's piano: your part clearly, the others quietly.
Soprano part
Range
Lowest C4Highest E5
Alto part
Range
Lowest G3Highest G4
Tenor part
Range
Lowest C3Highest F4
Bass part
Range
Lowest F2Highest C4
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The words
Verse 1
Dingdong, ding: Dingadongading: Dingdong, dingdong: Dingadongding. Up! good Christen folk and listen How the merry churchbells ring, And from steeple bid good people Come adore the newborn King: Tell the story how from glory God came down at Christmastide, Bringing gladness, chasing sadness, Show’ring blessings far and wide, Born of mother, blest o’er other, Ex Maria Virgine, In a stable ('tis no fable), Christus natus hodie. Dingdong, ding: Dingadongading: Dingdong, dingdong: Dingadongding.
Free to sing: George Ratcliffe Woodward died in 1934.