Groovy Pike - Cold Winter / All Hail To The Days / In Praise of Christmas (Weihnachten 2019)

Mit diesem alten englischen Weihnachtslied aus dem 17. Jahrhundert über gute Gemeinschaft, Musik, Nächstenliebe und Vergebung wünschen wir eine gesegnete Weihnachtszeit!

All hail to the days that merit more praise
Than all the rest of the year
And welcome the nights that double delights
As well for the poor as the peer
And good fortune attend each merry man's friend
That doth but the best that he may
And forgetting old wrongs, with music and songs
To drive the cold winter away, to drive the cold winter away

‘Tis ill for a mind to anger inclined
To think of small injuries now
If it’s wrath that you seek, don’t lend her your cheek
Nor let her inhabit thy brow
And cast out of thy books malevolent looks
Both beauty and youth will decay
And wholly consort with mirth and with sport
To drive the cold winter away, to drive the cold winter away

This time of the year is spent in good cheer
And neighbors together do meet
Oh, to sit by the fire with friendly desire
Each other in love for to greet
And old grudges forgot, are put in the pot
And sorrows aside they lay
And the old and the young will carol this song
To drive the cold winter away, to drive the cold winter away

When Christmastide comes in like a bride
With holly and ivy clad
For twelve days of the year I spent in good cheer
In every household is clad
Then the country guise is then to devise
Some gambols of Christmas to play
Oh, and ev’ry young man does the best that he can
To drive the cold winter away, to drive the cold winter away

Mehr zum Lied:
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Mucke:
- Andreas Starke spielt auf seiner neuen Santa Cruz und singt
- Benjamin Flux spielt auf Andreas' alter Martin und seiner noch älteren Hopf-Geige und singt
Aufnahme:
- Video: Fairphone 3
- Audio: Neumann TLM 103, Beyerdynamic MC930
- Audiokompressor: Zu Beginn etwas zuviel des Guten :-)