Cleveland Chamber Choir: "Coventry" arr. by B. E. Boykin

Conductor Jelani Watkins conducts Cleveland Chamber Choir in a performance of “Coventry” arranged by B. E. Boykin (b. 1989).

Recorded LIVE on December 18, 2022 at Disciples Christian Church, Cleveland Heights, OH. Soloists: Julie Myers-Pruchenski, alto.

Coventry (Anon 16th Century English carol)
Lully, lullay, Thou little tiny Child
Bye bye, lully, lullay.
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 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.
Then woe is me, poor Child, for Thee!
And ever mourn and say
For thy parting neither say nor sing,
Bye bye, lully, lullay.

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