The Coventry Carol

The fourth Sunday of Advent.

#Love

Original spelling	Modernised spelling
Lully, lulla, thow littell tine child, By by, lully, lullay thow littell tyne child, By by, lully, lullay!	Lully, lullay, thou little tiny child, Bye bye, lully, lullay. Thou little tiny child, Bye bye, lully, lullay.
O sisters too, how may we do For to preserve this day This pore yongling for whom we do singe By by, lully, lullay?	O sisters too, how may we do For to preserve this day This poor youngling for whom we sing, “Bye bye, lully, lullay”?
Herod, the king, in his raging, Chargid he hath this day His men of might in his owne sight All yonge children to slay,—	Herod the king, in his raging, Chargèd he hath this day His men of might in his own sight All young children to slay.
That wo is me, pore child, for thee, And ever morne and may For thi parting nether say nor singe, By by, lully, lullay.	That woe is me, poor child, for thee And ever mourn and may For thy parting neither say nor sing, “Bye bye, lully, lullay.”