Stretched on Your Grave presents....
The Coventry Carol
Words from the pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors.
Lully, lullay, thou little tiny child
By, by lully, lullay

O sisters too, how may we do
For to preserve this day
This poor youngling
For whom we sing
By, by 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

That woe is me, poor child, for thee
And ever morn and say,
For thy parting, neither nor sing,
By, by lully, lullay
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