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Free Christmas Song Lyrics - Lirum Lirum
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Lirum Lirum
Thomas Morley
(ca. 1595)
You that wont to my pipes sound
Daintily to tread your ground
Jolly Shepards and Nymphs sweet
Lirum, lirum...
Here met together
under the weather
Hand in hand uniting
The Holy Child come greet
Lirum, lirum...
Lo triumphing brave comes he
All pomp and Majesty
Monarch of the world and king
Lirum, lirum...
Let who list him
dare to resist him
We our voice uniting
of his high acts will sing
Lirum, lirum...
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Factoid: Lirum refers to the Lyra, or hurdy gurdy, which, according to "Hurdy
gurdy" by Francis Baines and Edmund Bowles in New Grove, is "a
mechanically bowed chordophone with three basic elements: a set of
melody and drone strings, a resin coated wooden wheel which when
made to rotate by a crank acts as a bow, and a keyboard with tangents
that bear on the melody string or strings when depressed."
In addition to Morley's "You that wont to my pipes sound..." (1595),
there's one by Youll (1608): "Hark, I hear the bagpipes sound, while they
dance lightly on the ground, Lirum lirum lirum."
The modern octavo edition of the Morley with Chistmas
words replaces the original "The holy god come greet"
with "The Holy Child come greet."
Some post-Elizabethan composers use "Lirum lirum" as equivalent to
"fa-la-la," but Elizabethan references tend to be in texts with bagpipes or
the equivalent.
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