Coventry Carol - Robert Shaw Chamber Singers

 

Lully, lullay, thou little tiny child,

Bye bye, lully, lullay.

Lully, lullay, thou little tiny child,

Bye bye, lully, lullay.

O sisters too, how may we do

For to preserve this day

This poor youngling for whom we do sing,

"Bye bye, lully, lullay"?

Herod the king, in his raging,

Charged he hath this day

His men of might in his own sight

All young children to slay.

Lully, lullay, thou little tiny child,

Bye bye, lully, lullay.

That woe is me, poor child, for thee

And ever mourn and may

For thy parting neither say nor sing,

"Bye bye, lully, lullay."

Lully, lullay, thou little tiny child,

Bye bye, lully, lullay.

The painting is Massacre of the Innocents by Léon Cogniet