[O, sing we a carol all blithe and free]

[O, sing we a carol all blithe and free]

Composer: Arthur Henry Brown, 1830-1926
Published in 2 hymnals


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Composer: Arthur Henry Brown, 1830-1926

Born: Ju­ly 24, 1830, Brent­wood, Es­sex, Eng­land. Died: Feb­ru­a­ry 15, 1926, Brent­wood, Es­sex, Eng­land. Almost com­plete­ly self taught, Brown be­gan play­ing the or­gan at the age 10. He was or­gan­ist of the Brent­wood Par­ish Church, Es­sex (1842-53); St. Ed­ward’s, Rom­ford (1853-58); Brent­wood Par­ish Church (1858-88); St. Pe­ter’s Church, South Weald (from 1889); and Sir An­tho­ny Browne’s School (to 1926). A mem­ber of the Lon­don Gre­gor­i­an As­so­ci­a­tion, he helped as­sem­ble the Ser­vice Book for the an­nu­al fes­tiv­al in St. Paul’s Ca­thed­ral. He sup­port­ed the Ox­ford Move­ment, and pi­o­neered the res­tor­a­tion of plain­chant and Gre­gor­i­an mu… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [O, sing we a carol all blithe and free]
Composer: Arthur Henry Brown, 1830-1926
Incipit: 54171 17651 22345
Key: F Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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O, Sing We a Carol

O, sing we a carol all blithe and free,
And fit for our Christmas morn,
For the world is as cold as the cold can be,
Though its Lord on this day was born;
Though its Lord on this day was born:
&#;Tis a wintry time for the rich and poor,
And who should be driv&#;n from a Christian&#;s door?

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