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Every year I go to somewhere where traditional Yorkshire/Ecclesfield carols are sung, by the families & relatives of people who've been singing them since the year dot, and coming across this reminded me of these carols and traditional songs, in fact I think this song has been sung in the past, but not for a long time.

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It makes me feel nostalgic for simpler times, I think it's a beautiful song.

In reply to Timmd:

I actually recorded this as part of a choir from several local schools in Holmfirth Civic Hall when I was about 5-6 years of age. Sadly when my mother died she did not seem to have the EP still which also had such classics as "Once there was a dragon.."

I also for many years went to the Rag and Louse (Officially The Fountain) at Ingbirchworth, every boxing day, where the anthem was sung in amongst Whilst Shepherds watched, to seven different tunes(It was good not to have a good memory when you were well -oiled and yet know the words). Sadly when I last went to the pub the people working there knew nothing about it.

In reply to Timmd:

Pratty Flowers.
There was a pub in Crow Edge named after it but it's houses now....

In reply to veteye:

Any more good pub nicknames? Slavering Jacks's?

In reply to Tom Valentine:

Also now a private house. Never has the word "eclectic" been so apt to describe the aforementioned hostelry
JW

In reply to John Ww:

Expect a mini estate at the Flouch any time soon. So sad.

In reply to Timmd:

If you follow the Sheffield farmers' carol scene you might have seen Bill Noble.
Master Craftsman drystone waller, a real character and he has made the song "Mistletoe Bough" his own.

In reply to Tom Valentine:

Aye, the old Flouch Balti looks to be in a sorry state.

In reply to Tom Valentine:

I don't but that sounds interesting. The people who lead the singing I go to are Black Bull regulars, in Ecclesfield.

In reply to Timmd:

Despite being a lifelong heathen, I went to the carol singing at the Huntsman in Thurlstone last year. As my parents made me go to chapel until I was old enough to rebel, I thought I had a pretty encyclopedic knowledge of every hymn and carol tune ever written. This proved not to be the case - there wasn't a single song I recognised. 'Appen ah mun be a cummerinner!

JW

In reply to Tom Valentine:

He closes the Shepley folk festival, where I live, with a solo number every year.