St Luke's Church, Eccleshill - The Link magazine

The Link is published monthly at 40p (Senior Citizens 35p), and we deliver free within the parish and post copies (at the reader's expense) to those who request it. Please contact us if you would like a free copy for a trial period.

January 2005, Page 6.
 

We keep the lambs and sheep, baa!

We keep the lambs and sheep,   Baa safe in the fields all night. It's dark, fierce dogs might bark,   Woof but we are there, the sheep will be all right. Last night we got a fright,   Aaah! an angel came to say: “Good news I've got for yous,   Huh? the Saviour of the world is born today. “And now, beside the cow,   Moo the manger is his bed, so look, but mind the duck,   Quack in Bethlehem, he’s sleeping in the shed.” So we have come to see,   Please? The baby in the hay. He's King, and we will sing,   La! The Saviour of the world is born today.

If you listen to Real Radio you may just possibly have heard me singing this carol on the news one evening. I wrote it after December's Link magazine had gone to press: it was for our Nativity service, where we had a lovely "Wise men" song which expressed their cleverness, but no "Shepherds" song to express their care for the sheep.

John Hartley
 

The parish magazine article also carried a handwritten copy of the music, but we have not put this onto our web site yet, partly because our computer won't yet do the printed dots on lines!

You can find a BBC Video Nation clip featuring this carol by following this link, and the carol was also featured on BBC Yorkshire & Humberside's Look North regional news programme on Tuesday 20th December 2004.

 

This web page was last updated on 7th February 2005.